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Hall County
JAMES C. BULLOCK.-One of the well known and highly respected resident of South Loup township, Hall County, is J. C. Bullock, who came to Nebraska in early days and has assisted in the development of different sections. Mr. Bullock has always been an observing man and his recollections of people and events connected with his long life in the state, give a very vivid idea of conditions here a half century ago.

Mr. Bullock was born in Hawkins County, Tennessee, October 1, 1842. His father was born in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, grew up there and acquired land which he sold and moved first to Jay County, Indiana, then to Randolph County, and from there, in 1856 to Polk County, Iowa. He was twice married and had three sons: J. C., who lives in Hall County; Isaac, who died in Hall County at the age of fifty years, and Moses, who was a carpenter, died in Kalawa County, Washington, at the age of sixty years. In 1889 Mr. Bullock removed from Iowa to Nebraska and homesteaded near Antioch, in Sheridan County, where he remained five years before coming to Hall County in 1894.

In Polk County, Iowa, Mr. Bullock was united in marriage with Nancy Anna Cox, who died at Antioch, Nebraska, in 1890. They had five children: Newton Clark, who was born July 9, 1865, served four years in the United States navy, then returned home, but is now on the United States cruiser California; Sarah, born January 30, 1868, in Jay County, Indiana, is the wife of Adam Stoeger; Alice Louise, born Nevember (sic) 4, 1870, is the wife of Henry Stoeger, a substantial farmer and dairyman of Hall County; Maria Celesta, born January 5, 1875, lived but three years, and Otto M., born November 5, 1877, and died at the age of thirteen months.

Transcribed by Larry Coates