Individual Details

History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade & Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889, by Goodspeed, p.722-723, has the strangest bio about Dr. J. P. Brasher. Conflicts are in parenthesis.
J. P. Brasher, M.D. who is one of the successful practicing physicians of Jerico Springs, Mo. is a native of Christian County, Ky., born May 6, 1850. He has been identified with interests of Cedar Co since 1856, at which time he came with his parents, I.S. and R. E. (Petty) Brasher to Missouri. [No son, J. P. appears above in 1850-1860 - I believe he must have been the son named Goldsmith and changed his name.] The father is of Irish ancestry, a prosperous farmer, and was born on Kentucky soil in 1810. His wife was born in Tennessee in 1814; and died in Cedar County, Mo., on the 20 of Jun 1887. [Dates of births are off about five years when compared to the censuses - neither of the parents appear to be in the 1880 census.] Five of their nine children grew to maturity and are yet living, of whom J. P. Brasher is the third. [which he would be if the son Balfour was one of the children who died] He resided with his parents until he reached his majority and received his education in the public schools of Kentucky and Missouri. In 1871 he took a course of lectures in the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis, and afterward entered the medical department of the University of Nashville, Tenn, from which he was graduated as an M.D. in 1874 and in 1881 received a diploma from the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis. He resides on a farm and practiced his profession near where Jerico now is, till the village was established, when he moved to his present residence. He is one of the successful physicians of the the county, and keeps thoroughly posted in his profession and in social as well as his professional capacity is a genial and accommodating gentleman. He is a Democrat in his political views, and is a member of IOOF and the Masonic fraternity. In 1876 he was married to Miss Laura L. Mitchell who was born in Missouri in 1856 and is a daughter of M. W. and Mary Mitchell. Mrs. Brasher is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

1880 Census. South Benton Twp, Cedar Co MO, Hh 86
Joseph P. Brashir, age 30, Doctor, b. KY, father b. KY
Laura L., age 25, wife, suffers from affects of typhoid fever, b. MO, father b. TN, mother b. KY
Bowlen Baker, age 14, "leighborer", b. MO

1900 Census. Benton Twp, Cedar Co MO Hh 62
Laura L. Brasher, b. Jan 1856 in MO, age 44, widow, she had no children
Allie [no different surname given], boarder, b. Jan 1885 in MO, age 15

Birth

6 May 1850

Christian County, Kentucky

Father	Isham S. Brasher (1815 - 1890)
Mother	Rosey E. Petty (1820 - 1887)
Sibling	Balfour W. Brasher (1842 - )
Sibling	Francis A. Brasher (1844 - )
Sibling	George W. Brasher (1846 - )
Sibling	Byron L. Brasher (1854 - )
Sibling	Cornelia J. Brasher (1857 - )