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JAMES LAFFERTY
WAS born in New Castle County, Delaware, near the
town of Wilmington, September. 27, 1794. In the year 1821 he moved to
this State with his parents, traveling by wagon to Pittsburg, thence by
flatboat down the Ohio River to Cincinnati, arriving here May 21, 1821,
the trip occupying six weeks' time. They located on their farm in
Clermont County, four or five miles east of Milford, where the old folks
remained till their death. James Lafferty was the son of Archibald
Lafferty and Mary See. Archibald Lafferty was the descendant of Scotch
parents. Mary See was daughter of French refugees. James was married,
February 8, 1816, to Mary Ann Beacom, who was the daughter of Irish
parents. They lived together till death separated them by her decease in
December, 1838. Seven children were the fruit of this marriage—six
girls and one boy—all of whom, at this writing, are dead except Mary
Ann Blair, Eliza B. Lafferty, and Archibald. R. Lafferty.
James Lafferty remained on the farm with his
parents till the year 1831, when he removed to Cincinnati and engaged in
the transfer business, which he carried on till the year 1845. From that
time till his death he was not engaged in any active business. He joined
the Methodist Episcopal Church, with his wife, in the year 1816, and
they both ever after remained true and faithful members. The writer of
this article can say that James Lafferty was one of God's noblemen—an
honest man—and one who was always zealous in his religious duties,
never neglecting Church matters for business or pleasure. His greatest
pleasure was in the Church, and nothing was important enough to detain
him from every attendance, if he was able to go. He joined Asbury M. E..
Chapel in the year 1833, and. was an acceptable member till his death,
which occurred October 15, 1869, in his seventy-sixth year. He was a
soldier in the War of 1812, although a mere boy.
After his journey to Cincinnati, by wagon and
flatboat, he returned to his native place and back to Cincinnati again
on horseback. Our readers know that those were wild and dangerous times
and the trip was an exceedingly perilous one. He scarcely knew what fear
was. He was a splendid marksman, and delighted in hunting. Even at the
age of seventy-three he was an excellent shot on the wing. Although
dead, his children feel that he still lives, resting on that peaceful,
happy shore, where sin and sorrow are no more.
Source: In Memoriam
Cincinnati 1881, Cincinnati, A. E. Jones, Publisher, 1881.
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