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About Joseph B. Bloxham
The family are Presbyterians.
Joseph B. Bloxham obtained his education in the common schools of Ararat, which he attended whenever he could be spared from work, having to travel two miles over the snow-drifts of Ararat to reach the school-house oft times. He worked for his father until past twenty, when he went to the Delaware River, in Wayne County, and worked at rafting for Deacon Courtright about one year, when he returned to Ararat and worked for Hull, Guernsey & Co., at Mud Pond saw-mill, one year. He then went rafting, and returned to Jackson, and hired to L. Bryant, from whence he was drawn home sick with rheumatism, from which he did not recover in six months. He next bought one hundred and thirty acres of wild land of Henry Drinker, and proceeded to clear up a farm. When twenty-seven years of age he married Mercy Beers (1834-78). Their children are Ellis O., Earnest A., Jennie M. (wife of V. O. Stearns), Melvina (wife of Luliel Carpenter), Grant W., Burtram J., French L., Byron W., Ida, Irena.
After the death of his first wife he married Deatte, daughter of Henry Pope, and they have one child — Lelia. By subsequent additions and exchanges Mr. Bloxham now has a farm of something over two hundred acres. He is a stock-raiser and dealer, keeping generally about forty head of cattle. Rolla Carpenter and he started a store when the railroad was being built, and run it for two years, occupying part of Carpenter's house, when he purchased Carpenter's interest and moved the goods into a store which J. A. Payne had built. After two years' partnership with Mr. Payne he sold out to him. Mr. Bloxham is a hard-working and prudent man — qualities which have secured him a __. He has contributed commensurate with his means to church interests and charities, and, with his family, worships with the Presbyterian Church of Ararat. ---
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Joseph B. Bloxham's Timeline
| 1831 |
1831
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Thompson, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
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1862
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| 1864 |
July 29, 1864
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Ararat, Susquehanna, PA, United States
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| 1869 |
April 11, 1869
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PA, United States
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| 1871 |
October 5, 1871
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Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1900 |
April 19, 1900
Age 69
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Ararat, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
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