Bluford L. Dulin married Martha Todd on 12 May 1867 in Alden, Hardin County, Iowa. She was born in April 1852 in Ohio, and died in 1915. Bluford & Martha had one daughter, Carrie Belle Dulin.

Bluford is the son of Bluford Dulin (born 1803 in Kentucky; died 05 Jan 1872 in Coles County, Illinois) and Hannah Cain (born 10 Mar 1809 in Adams County, Ohio; died before 1850).

Siblings: James (born 1828), Lovina (born 1832), Lucretia (1840-1933), Hiram (born 1844), and William (born 1848).
Half-brothers & sisters: Jasper (born 1853), Sylvester (1853-1934), Sarah M. (1855-1916), Hannah I. (born 1855), Harriet (born 1857), and Olive (born 1862).

Bluford L. Dulin served as a Private in Company K of the 113th Illinois Infantry and Company G of the 120th Regiment, Illinois Infantry.

According to the Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Database (http://www.ilsos.gov/genealogy/), these are his personal characteristics at the time he was mustered in:
Residence: Yellowhead, Kankakee County, Illinois
Age: 18
Height: 5' 4
Hair: light
Eyes: blue
Complexion: fair
Marital status: single
Occupation: farmer
Nativity: Kankakee Co., Illinois

census data:
Residence: 1850: Sherburne Township, Will Co., Illinois
Residence: 1860: Yellowhead Township, Kankakee Co., Illinois
Residence: 1870: Cedar Creek Township, Lake Co., Indiana; occupation: teamster
Residence: 1880: Coloma, Waushara Co., Wisconsin; occupation: farmer
Residence: 1885: Village of Coloma Station, Waushara Co., Wisconsin
Residence: 1895: Village of Coloma Station, Waushara Co., Wisconsin
Residence: 1900: Coloma, Waushara Co., Wisconsin; occupation: driver in livery
Residence: 1905: Coloma, Waushara Co., Wisconsin; occupation: hotel clerk
Residence: 1910: Coloma, Waushara Co., Wisconsin; occupation: laborer in livery stable
Residence: 1920: Coloma, Waushara Co., Wisconsin

Obituary:
"B.L. Dulin, an old and highly respected citizen, passed to the beyond Sunday, May 30th, about eleven o'clock. Had he lived until June 18th he would have been 75 years of age. He was a veteran of the civil war, enlisting at the age of seventeen years. Funeral services were held at the home at 2 P.M. Tuesday and at the M.E. church immediately following, conducted by Rev. J.H. McManus assisted by Rev. V.H. Helms. Interment at Coloma cemetery where the I.O.O.F. service was conducted. Those present at the funeral from away were Mr. and Mrs. Julius Lau and daughter of Westfield and H. Premo and family and Walter Johnson of Hancock.
M.C. Hollister of Kenosha and Mrs. Maud Meinke of Packwaukee, grandson and niece of B.L. Dulin, came Monday to be present at the funeral."
[source: "About Our Neighbors: Coloma", Waushara Argus (Wautoma, Wisconsin), 2 June 1920, page 4.]