Mrs. Lucena Moulton 1879

MOULTON, WILCOX, COLEMAN

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MRS. LUCENA MOULTON, Sec. 31; P.O. Maquoketa; is a native of Grafton Co., Vt.; born in 1806; when 4 years of age, her parents removed to Essex Co., N.Y.; she grew up to womanhood there. Married Thomas J. Moulton; they came by wagon to Iowa and were twenty-one days on the way, and arrived in Jackson Co. June 7, 1845; they located on the farm where Mrs. Moulton now lives and engaged in farming. They were among the early settlers here and only had one team when they got here. Mr. Moulton died July 8, 1850. They had ten children, seven of whom survive - Elizabeth, William, Eli L., Oliver P., Adeline, Albert and Thomas J. (Mrs. Moulton owns 120 acres of land.) William was born in St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., in 1826; he came to this county with his parents in 1845. Married Miss Sarah Ann Wilcox, a native of Canada, a daughter of John Wilcox, one of the earliest settlers of this county. Thomas J. was born in St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., April 3, 1842; he came with his parents to Iowa when only 3 years of age; he grew up to manhood here and engaged in farming. He married Miss Lovina Coleman, a native of Canada, in 1869; they have four children - Ida, John, Horace and Mark. He enlisted in Co. F, 31st I.V.I., and served three years. - 1879 History of Jackson County Iowa, pg. 647-648.