John was the son of Benjamin Moulton and Rebecca Stewart. He married Nancy Deliah Brush 30 MAR 1848 in Dearborn Co., Indiana. They were the parents of Elizabeth, Thomas, Delilah, Arthur, Floyd, Jackson, Stephen, Mary, and Jared.


The Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa by Robert E. Flickinger, A.B.B.D, published by Fonda Times, Fonda Iowa, 1904 - JOHN MOULTON, (1828-1893), resident of Cedar, was a native of Ohio county, Ind. In 1848, he married Nancy D. Brush (b. 1829) and located on a farm. In 1860, he moved to Livingston county, Illinois, and remained there until 1876, when he located on a farm of 80 acres in Cedar township, which he improved, increased and occupied until his death at 65 in 1893. He left a family of nine children.

Elizabeth (b. 1849) in 1879, in Peoria county, Illinois, married John Garton, and in 1881, located on a farm of 80 acres on sec. 18, Cedar, which he improved and occupied until his death in 1897, when he left a family of four children, Emma, who in 1891, married Frank Hamilton, Cora, who in 1893, married Charles Moore, Isaac, who in 1900, married Clara Perry, and Pearl.

Thomas (b. Ind. 1848), a farmer, in 1861, in Livingston county, Illnois, married Elizabeth Dudley and located that year in Cedar township, Pocahontas county. Three years later he located on sec. 18, Dover and remained there thirteen years. His family consists of four children, Chester, Reuben, Walter and Charles.

Delilah in 1872, married Daniel Scribbins and located on a farm in Livingston county, Illinois, but later near Peoria, and died while visiting friends at Fonda in 1900, leaving a family of ten children.

Arthur (b. Ind. 1854), in 1881, married Cora, daughter of John Lemp, and is now the owner of a farm of 400 acres in Cedar township, which he has recently improved with new and very commodious buildings. He has a family of eight children: George, John, Wilford, Roy, Grace, Henry, Fay and Nettie.

Floyd (b. Ind. 1856) in 1889, married Ella Decorah. He is the owner of a a farm of 160 acres in Cedar township, and has two children, John A. and Elsie.

Frank (b. Illinois 1860) in 1881, married Lucy, daughter of William Eaton, who died in 1886, leaving two children, John W. and Belle. In 1894, he married Pearl Shreves and is now a resident of Dover.

Stephen J. (b. Illinois 1863) married Bertha Walters, lives in South Dakota and has two children, Dottie and Mary.

Mary Ann in 1886, married James Trude, a drayman, Fonda, (See Trude).

Jared L. (b. Illinois 1886) owner and occupant of the old home farm in Cedar, in 1898, married Anna Larson and has one son, Clarence.

In 1895, Nancy D. (Brush) Moulton married Americus V. Sargent and after a few years residence at Fonda, returned to the old Moulton home.