A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--pages 1074-1075
Henry Hufford, one of the oldest pioneers of Hendricks County, Ind., son of George and Elizabeth (Castle) Hufford, was born in Woodford County, Ky., in 1812. The father was born in Maryland, about 1758, and when a young man pushed westward into the then unknown wilds of Kentucky, being among the first settlers of that state. There he cleared a farm from the woods, married Elizabeth Castle, also from Maryland, and spent a useful life until struck down by the hand of an assassin in 1828. The following year his widow married William Florence, sold the little Kentucky home and emigrated in wagons to Hendricks County, Ind., where they bought a farm of eighty acres and entered eighty more adjoining, which now constitute the Hufford homestead. In 1840 Mr. Florence died. The widow continued to carry on the farm till her death in 1860, when it passed by purchased into the hands of its present owner.
The subject of this sketch received a limited education in the primitive log school-house of the early days of Kentucky, and at the age of sixteen he came with the family to Indiana. He purchased land and cleared a farm from the woods and endured many hardships and privations. In 1839 he moved to Putnam County, entered a piece of land which he cleared from the woods, built a home and remained until the death of his mother in 1860, when he sold the Putnam County farm and purchased the homestead in Hendricks County, where he has since resided. All but eight acres of the farm has been cleared and improved by himself and is now in an excellent state of cultivation. In 1837 Mr. Hufford married Hulda Snodgrass, daughter of Robert and Lucretia (Simmons) Snodgrass. To this union were born, Robert (deceased), John (also deceased), Mrs. Margaret Alexander, Mrs. Caroline Rodney and George. The wife died in 1850, and the following year Mr. Hufford took as wife Sarah Waldon, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Dale) Waldon. To them have been born five children: Elizabeth (deceased), Albert (deceased), Mrs. Mary Bly, Henry Harrison, Jr., and Mrs. Amanda Thompson. Mr. Hufford is now in his eighty-fourth year, strong and robust. He is a member of no organization, but, surrounded by children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, he lives in the consciousness of a life well spent and enjoys the fruits of long years of toil and hardship.
Henry Harrison Hufford, Jr., trustee-elect of Liberty Township, Hendricks County, and son of the above, was born in Putnam County, Ind., in 1858. When but three years of age, his parents moved to Hendricks County, which event he distinctly remembers. He was raised on his father's farm and given a very good common-school education. April 3, 1879, he was united in marriage with Flora A. Mendenhall, daughter of Asa and Katharine (Ethner) Mendenhall. The wife was born in Iowa, in 1860, and came with her parents to Indiana in 1868. She was the mother of three children: Raymond H., Gertrude and Maud C. Mr. Hufford has built a neat modern farm residence near the old homestead and is surrounded by all the necessary comforts of life. Both he and wife are active members of the Missionary Baptist Church, in which they are recognized as leaders. He is a member of both the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities and has always espoused the cause of the Republican Party in politics, and November 6, 1894, was elected township trustee.