MARSHALL BULLOCK

BULLOCK

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 19:40:44

MARSHALL BULLOCK, section 17, Nodaway township (postoffice Nodaway), was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1816. His father, Curtis Bullock, was born in Chester county, that State, and the father of the latter, Moses Bullock, was born in Maryland, of
English ancestry. Moses had two brothers in the Revolutionary war, John and Isaac. Marshall Bullock’s mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Hickman, was a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, and of German ancestry. Our subject, at the age of twenty-one years, went to Morgan county, Ohio, where he made his home until 1864, when he came to Adams county, Iowa. His farm of 120 acres is good, rich bottom land and hillside. Here he has all the equipments of a good grain and stock farm, in fine condition. In politics he is a Republican, and for forty years he has belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which society he has been steward, class-leader, and superintendent of the Sunday-school. He devotes special attention to the improvement of his children, four of whom have been successful school-teachers.

Mr. Bullock was married in Morgan county, Ohio, to Miss Rhoda Devoll, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Manchester) Devoll. Of their nine children five are living, namely: H. D., a prominent citizen of Nodaway township, a sketch of whom is given on another page of this work; William, who lives in Randolph, Fremont county, this State, a carpenter and contractor; Lyman L., of whom also a sketch appears in this volume; Deborah, now the wife of Jacob Smith, of Nodaway township; and Priscilla, the wife of Dr. McKittredge. of Ohio. Four are deceased namely: Curtis, who is buried in the cemetery at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he died in the service of his country, a member of the Thirtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Sarah, who was the wife of Dr. Cooper, of Villisca; Rhoda Ann, who died at the age of twelve years; and Nancy, who died when two years of age.