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- From Reflections of yester-years.
Thomas Pulliam, son of Thomas and Polly Pulliam, was born in Linn Co. in 1843 and died in 1920. He is buried in the Purdin Cemetery. He was one of the three Pulliam brothers who remained around Purdin and raised their children.
Thomas, a Civil War Veteran, married Ann Cassity on Jan. 11, 1866. They settled on a farm north of Purdin and lived there all their lives. Later a son, Charley, and his family lived there and now the land belongs to grandchildren.
Thomas and Ann Pulliam were the parents of five children: Minnie, Etta, William, Charles and Edward.
Minnie was married to Henry Bivens and they had one daughter, Stella (Bivens) Crabtree, she lives in Denver, Colo. and has one daughter Marion.
Etta married David Cady, he will be remembered as a rural mail carrier. They were the parents of three children: Thomas (died while a young man); Evelyn (Cady) Hill, she has two children, Ada and Garland; Stella Mae (Cady) Gooch married Kenneth Gooch, lives on a farm nw of Purdin and they are the parents of two daughters, Mary Rottman and Norma Whipple.
William (Bill), married Ella Elston and they had three children. Lloyd (deceased), he had one daughter; Jesse (deceased) married Merle Stone (deceased) they had one daughter, Nadine (Pulliam) Elliott; Eva (Pulliam) Murrey, Skidmore.
Charles (Charley) married Nora Boswell and they had two children; Irene (Pulliam) Smithers, Chillicothe and she had two daughters, Nora and Charlene; Charles married Velma Baskett and they have a son Duane, and two grandchildren.
Edward (Ed) married Rhoda Cady. They had one daughter, Nellie Pulliam) Kroger, and she had a son, Gilbert. Nellie lives in North Kansas City. They also raised a foster son, Carl A. Falch, Sterling, Colo.
Charles Jr is the only descendant of this family living near Purdin.
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