1882 History of Linn County, Missouri

BIOGRAPHY

JOHN W. SLEEPER                                                                     Benton Township: 780

is a son of Moses and Lydia Sleeper, and was born in New Hampshire, July 10, 1828.  His parents also were natives of the same State, and John Lived there till June, 1843.  The family then moved to Dundee, Kane county, Illinois, where they lived over a year.  From there John W. came to Linn county, Missouri.  This was in 1844, and he has been here ever since, except temporary absence.  He went to Texas in the fall of 1852, and wintered at Austin.  He went out with teams and returned by steamer.  Most of the time he has been farming and working at the carpenter’s trade.  Mr. Sleeper was married at Sc0ttsville, in Sullivan county, May 14, 1854, to Miss Nancy Keller, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Keller, natives of Tennessee.  Eleven children have been born of this union, seven of whom still survive.  Mr. Sleeper was not in the war, except being enrolled in the Provisional service, Company L, under Capt. H. D. Johnson.

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