Obituary of Henry Clay Moulden

The following regarding the death of a former Bloomfield citizen is from the Goff Advance, at Goff, Kansas:

“Henry Clay Moulden was born at Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, October 10, 1860, and passed away from this life at his home southwest of Goff on January 11, 1832, after an illness of somewhat more than a year.

He was married to Hetty Turley on August 9, 1883. Five children were born to them. The only daughter, Mamie, was taken from them by death when she was but four and a half months of age.

In 1898 the family, parents and four sons, moved to Bancroft, Kansas, and two years later purchased the little home where Mr. Moulden passed away. He is survived by his wife and four sons, Lovell, of Wetmore; Ivan, of Circleville; Orville, of Soldier; Ernest, of Ttchison; four daughters-in-law, who loved him as a father; six grandsons, Everett, Leonard, Forrest, Cleo, Carl, Donald; three granddaughters, Veda, Gladys and Pauline; three great-grandchildren, two half-sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Haywood, Linton, Indiana, and Mrs. Nancy BOUGH, Bloomfield, Indiana, and one half-brother, Thomas Patterson, of Bloomfield, Indiana.

He led a straightforward, clean life, assuming the duties of father and husband and going his modest way, being willing to be “just a simple ordinary man, whom the papers overlook” as Edgar Guet describes so beautifully in his poem on “The Average Man.”

The funeral was held in the Soldier Christian church on January 13, the pastor, Rev. Mayfield, officiating. New Eden quartet provided the music, Mrs. Lela Steck, Mrs. Minna Alexander, Mrs. Clarence Alexander and Ernest Massey, with Mrs. Mabel Alexander accompanying. Burial was at Soldier.”When a resident here Mr. Moulden resided in the south part of town, near the residence of Charles Oliphant. He was a half-brother of Thomas Patterson.

THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday January 28, 1932, Volume LVI, Number 13, Page 1, Column 8, “H. C. MOULDEN DIED JAN. 11 IN KANSAS—Was Former Bloomfield Citizen; Resided in South Part of Town Many Years.” [Transcribed 2 October 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.]

Courtesy of Robert Jackson via Rootsweb.