The Peffley, Peffly, Pefley Families in America, A historical
and genealogical record of the Peffley, Peffly and Pefley
families from 1729-1938; Published in 1938, By May Miller Frost
and Clarence Earl Frost
Call Number: R929.2 P375
1049 - HENRY PEFLEY JR., (son of No.943) married about 1842 CATHERINE CATON, born 1817, died 1895. Both
are buried at Parsons, Kansas.
Henry left home when he was about 18 years old, went to Ohio. One
incident he told his children was of working all one winter for
an old German couple. When he was leaving in the spring the old
lady gave him a pair of wool sox for his winter's work. Later he
enlisted in the U. S. Army. He was discharged in 1842 and married
soon after. In 1869 he moved to a farm near Parsons, Kansas where
he became very prosperous. Most of his children lived and died on
this farm.
Issue: All born and died at Parsons, Kansas.
1 - MARY M. PEFLEY, b. 1845, d. 1879.
2 - RACHEL PEFLEY, b. 1847, d. 1932.
3 - HENRY H. PEFLEY, b. 1849, d. 1871.
4 - ARCHIBALD PEFLEY, b. 1851, d. 1932
5 - JAMES T. PEFLEY, b. 1853, d. 1934.
6 - JOSEPH C. PEFLEY, b. 1856, d. 8-11-1936.
7 - ABRAHAM L. PEFLEY, b. 1858, d. 1935.