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Re: Death or cemetery

BICKFORD

Posted By: Jim Stuber (email)
Date: 5/25/2012 at 18:37:42

In Response To: Death or cemetery (Marla Gray)

This entry from the 1878 History of Appanoose County indicates that he died in 1874 and his son took over the family farm.

The History of Appanoose County..., Iowa
Chicago: Western Hist. Co., 1878.

Udell Township

Bickford, John H ., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Unionville; born in Udell Tp., this county, in 1853; his father, Charles E. Bickford, was born near Springfield, Ill., in 1825; he married Miss E. H. Shaffer in 1849, in Lee Co., Ill.; she was born in Virginia in 1831; very soon after their marriage, they removed to this county, where he entered the land now occupied by John H., consisting of 241 acres, now valued at $30 per acre; occupied the same farm until his death, ,which occurred in 1874, leaving eight children - P. Moses, John H., Martha L., Sarah A., Charles M., George M. and James B. Republican in politics; Mr. and Mrs. B. had been members of the M. E. Church for fifteen years. Of his children, Moses is now in California ; all the others are in Texas , except John H., now occupying the home farm.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iabiog/appanoose/h1878/h1878-udell.htm

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