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Daniel Mulford
(1778-1843)
Mary Jelly
(1780-1858)
Benjamin Mulford
(1802-1883)
Mary Legg
(1808-Abt 1862)
John Legg Mulford
(1831-1895)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Cynthia Ann Henderson

2. Mary Jane Chance

John Legg Mulford

  • Born: 20 Jul 1831, Cold Springs, Dearborn, Indiana 1 2
  • Marriage (1): Cynthia Ann Henderson on 1 Jul 1852 in , Ripley, Indiana
  • Marriage (2): Mary Jane Chance
  • Died: 4 Mar 1895, , Dearborn, Indiana at age 63

bullet   Another name for John was Buffalo.

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bullet  General Notes:

John L. Mulford was reared at Cold Springs, Indiana, and was a farmer and stockman. Although his home farm comprised fifty-eight acres of land in Sparta township, he owned at the time of his death, in 1895, when he was sixty-five years old, some two hundred acres of farm land in different parts of the county. He and his wife were the parents of three children: Morton C., of Moores Hill; Laura A., the widow of Henry Holtegal, of Louisville, Kentucky, and Emma E., the wife of David B. Stafford, of Louisville, Kentucky. The mother of these children died in 1913, at the age of seventy-seven years. Both she and her husband were members of the Presbyterian church and charter members of the congregation at Cold Springs, Indiana. 3

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bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1840, Sparta, Dearborn, Indiana. 4

• Census, 1850, Sparta, Dearborn, Indiana. 5
Benjamin Mulford, 48, farmer, real estate $2500, born in Ohio. Mary Mulford, 40, born in Ohio. John Mulford, 19, farmer, born in Ohio. Clarissa A. Mulford, 17, born in in Ohio. William C. Mulford, 9, born in Ohio. Benjamin T. Mulford, 6, born in Ohio. James F. Vandolah, 1, born in Ohio.

• Census, 1870, Sparta, Dearborn, Indiana. 6
John Mulford, 38, stock broker, property $800, born in Indiana. mary Mulford, 37, born in Indiana. Charles Mulford, 18, born in Indiana. Morton Mulford, 6, born in Indiana. Laura Mulford, 1, born in Indiana.

• Census, 1880, Sparta, Dearborn, Indiana. 7
J. L. Mulford, 49, horse dealer, born in Ohio. Mary Jane Mulford, 46, born in Indiana. Morton Mulford, 16, born in Indiana. Laura Mulford, 12, born in Indiana. Emma Mulford, 9, born in Indiana.


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John married Cynthia Ann Henderson on 1 Jul 1852 in , Ripley, Indiana. (Cynthia Ann Henderson was born on 2 Apr 1833 in , Ripley, Indiana 2 8 and died in 1895 in Wakefield, Richland, Illinois.)


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John next married Mary Jane Chance. (Mary Jane Chance was born in 1835 in , , Indiana 9 and died in 1913 in Cold Springs, Dearborn, Indiana.)


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Sources


1 Jeannette Mulford. Wahlbom - owner, "Mulford Family Bibles - Family Record Entries Through Three Family Bibles." (First entry was in 1752. Entries transcribed by Jeannette Mulford Wahlbom. Copy in possession of Lee Drew.), John Legg Mulford, son of Benjamin and Mary Mulford, was born July 30, 1831.

2 Joan Black Lund, Mulford's in America, a Quarterly Newsletter (Published by Joan Black Lund, Jun 1985 - Feb 1992.), vol 1, issue 3, pg 65.

3 Archibald Shaw, History of Dearborn County, Indiana : her people, industries and institutions, with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of old families (Indianapolis, Indiana : B. F. Bowen & Co. Inc., 1915 FHL Film 931796).

4 Indiana, Dearborn, Sparta, 1840 Federal Census (www.ancestry.com), Benj. Mulford, male 5 - 10.

5 Indiana, Dearborn, Sparta, 1850 Federal Census (www.ancestry.com), John Mulford, 19, Farmer, born in Ohio.

6 Indiana, Dearborn, Sparta, 1870 Federal Census (www.ancestry.com).

7 Indiana, Dearborn, Sparta, 1880 Federal Census (www.ancestry.com).

8 Indiana, Dearborn, Aurora, 1850 Federal Census (www.ancestry.com).

9 Joan Black Lund, Mulford's in America, a Quarterly Newsletter (Published by Joan Black Lund, Jun 1985 - Feb 1992.), Vol 1 Issue 1 Page 3.

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