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.