Article appearing on page 22 of the Decatur Review Newspaper, October Moffet Farm 95 Years Old Members of Family Gather for Reunion Sunday. For nearly a century, since it was obtained by government patent in For 95 years the house and farm of 212 acres has been in the John Bingham Moffett, great grandfather of the present owner obtained A quarter of a mile behind the house runs the Sangamon river. For many 10 ROOM HOUSE The house itself is a well built ten room structure that has stood Hospitality has been dispensed in its long dining room through many a Recently abstractors insisted that the chain of title be complete. The government patents to the land were found by the late E. R. OLD FURNITURE Old furniture discarded many years ago as unfashionable has been Children still romp through the rooms and over the farm. Some day one Caption under picture included with article: For ninety-five years a member of the Moffett family has lived in the Caption under another picture included with article: This is the J.B. Moffett home, located about 1/2 mile West of the W.T. Our Grandfather Moffett as well as our Father, Uncles, Aunt and my.
Ira was born at
Macon Co., Illinois, on 10 October 1885. He was the son of
Edward Raymond Moffett and
Juliette Augusta Warnick. He married
Nettie Myrtle Elder circa July 1904. He married
Lela Mae Benson on 12 January 1920. Ira died on 2 July 1967 at
Decatur, Macon Co., Illinois, at age 81. His body was interred in July 1967 at
Decatur, Macon Co., Illinois, at Brown Cemetery.