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Submitted: 9/8/16 • Approved: 9/9/16 • Last Updated: 3/28/18 • R797308-G0-S3
Aug. 12, 1838 Dearborn County, Indiana
Nov. 29, 1907
Company B
28th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Civil War Union
Parents:
Daniel Mulford 1808–1888
Aurilla Forkner 1816–1854
Spouse:
Clarinda McCarty 1848–1884
History of Menard and Mason Counties, Illinois, 1879, by Miller and Ruggles
Salt Creek Township
Page 846
JACOB F. MULFORD, farmer; P. O. Mason City, was born in Dearborn Co., Ind., Aug. 12, 1838; came to Mason Co., Ill., in November, 1847. Aug. 1, 1861, he enlisted in Co. A, 28th I. V. I., for three years service; previously, he enlisted for the ninety days' call, but was not ordered out until after he re-enlisted, as above stated; he received a bullet in his leg at the battle of Shiloh that laid him up about two months; he was in many other and some serious engagements; he re-enlisted Jan. 4. 1863, for another three years or during the war, and remained in the service almost a year alter the surrender of the last rebel; was discharged at Brownsville, Texas, April 14, 1866; what were left of their regiment disbanded at Springfield, Ill. He married Miss Clarinda McCarty May 27, 1866; she was born in Salt Creek Township March 18, 1848; they have had nine children: Thomas E., born April 28, 1867; Carrie I., Dec. 5, 1868; Norman O., March 7, 1870; Effie M., Sept. 14, 1871; Rosie E., Jan. 29. 1873; Jacob E., Aug. 22, 1874, died Dec. 26, 1877; John H., born June 14. 1876; William L., Nov. 4, 1877, and the baby, March 12, 1879. Sept. 12, 1874, they movcd to Missouri and remained three years, and then returned to the farm where they now reside in Salt Creek Township.
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