J. Y. Tilford

TILFORD, HARPER, WICOX

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/26/2004 at 13:59:02

J. Y. Tilford, one of the leading stock farmers, resides on section 19, Butler township. His farm contains 280 acres, and the improvements on the same are valued at about $6,000. Mr. Tilford is a son of John S. Tilford, a sketch of whose life appears in the State Atlas of Iowa. He was from Indiana, and resided there until 1852, when he came to Iowa, and followed farming in Benton county.
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In 1857 he married Miss Mahala A. Harper. She died January 3, 1862, leaving three children – Cora M., Maggie A., and Minnie. In November, 1862, he married Miss Hattie A. Wilcox. In 1881 he came to Butler county, and has since been engaged in stock farming. By the second marriage he has three children – J. Ethel, Hattie May, and William Alva.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 517