JOHN H. BICKFORD

BICKFORD, SHAFFER

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 6/6/2009 at 10:32:00

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

JOHN H. BICKFORD, 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; allt he others are in Texas, except John H., now occupying the home farm.