Family Tree of Jean Mulhern. Sylvester Crofoot Murdick - Facts Family Tree

“a farmer of Wayne Township…son of Daniel and Mehitable Murdick, of English ancestry. When very young he was taken by his parents to Rutland County, Ohio, where the father died when our subject was three years of age. Soon after this event the mother moved to Wayne County, OH and there reared her family. She died in Seneca County in September, 1849. Twelve children were born to these parents, only two of whom are living - Sylvester, and Mary, now Mrs. Blake of Warren County, OH. When 14 years of age Mr. Murdick came to Wayne, County, this state, and remained there until the spring of 1833…farmed, in Grant County, returned to Wayne Co. where he resided until the fall of 1853. Married August 22, 1833, Miss Mary Wright of NC, had 6 children and two survive, Rosaline wife of A.H. Elwood, and James M. In the fall of 1853 Mr. Murdick came with his family to Kosciusko Co. and after residind in Monroe Twp until 1856 he removed to present farm in Wayne Twp.
(A LITTLE CONFUSED BECAUSE OF THE WAYNE COUNTIES.
MARRIED IN WAYNE CO. IN IN 1833
1840 WAYNE, WAYNE, IN CENSUS. (near Richmond and Spring Grove)
SYLVESTER IS IN WAYNE CO. INDIANA IN 1850
WAYNE TWP KOSCIUSKO CO. 1870

1833 bought land in Grant County Sylvester Murdick of Grant County Indiana, Land Office at Fort Wayne 8 June 1833
The West half of the south west quarter of section 26, in township 24, north of range 8-East, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Fort Wayne, Indiana containing 80 acres.
(Grant Co. was another 70 miles northwest of Wayne County)


1840 FC Wayne, Wayne, IN 8 in home: male 5-9; male 10-14, male 20-29 Sylvester, 3 females under 5; female 30-39 and female 60-69, WHO is the female, seems wife gone, mother there

1850 FC Wayne, Wayne, IN with Sylvester 36, Mary 40, Roseline 13, Ann E. 11, James M. 8

1870 FC Wayne, Kosciusko, IN with Sylvester 56, Mary 60, James M. 28, Albert H. Ellwood 30, Rosaline H. Ellwood 30

1880 - Wayne, Kosciusko, IN with James M. 38, Isabell 24, Gertie 6 months; Sylvester 65, Mary 70, Henry Ellwood 7

son James Madison. born 8 feb 1842 in Wayne Co. IN and on Jan 2 1879 married Isabella Weirick daughter of Jacob Weirick. Children Alta, Frank, Fred and Annie. Lived in Warsaw

“When Sylvester was 3, his mother Mehitable had moved the family to Wayne County (Mohican Twp.) where he grew up. He went to Indiana at the age of 14 (about 1827/8). I think with a western-moving family member. When he was of age there in Indiana, he put in for his own land claim in Indiana.  In 1840, there is an older woman living in his household in Indiana, of an age to be Mehitable.  I could imagine Mehitable traveling back and forth by train or coach to visit between her children in Indiana and Ohio.” Jean Mulhern (Shinabargers went toward Michigan border and Murdock went into southern IN around Richmond.