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

42 - LEVI ALLEN HUFFMAN (son of No.38) married Dec. 22nd, 1921, ETHEL FLORENCE GARMAN, born in Roanoke Co., Va., Feb. 19th, 1898 (dau. of SAMUEL PETER GARMAN and MARY CATHERINE GRISSO.

Address (as of 1938); Route 1, Salem, Va.

Levi lives on and operates the old Ben. Brubaker farm near Hanging Rock, Roanoke Co., Va., on Mason's Creek. He has in his possession an old chest used by Ben. and Susannah to store their money and papers in during the early days.

The chest is of walnut on four small legs, and is about 8x14 inches. During the Civil War a party of Union soldiers stopped at the house and asked Susannah for something to eat. She started preparing the food and while she was doing so the soldiers ransacked the house. Finding the chest locked they thought it must contain valuables, so they took it out in the yard and broke it open with a bayonet, scattering the contents on the ground. They found it contained some papers and what was apparently a bunch of rags, but nothing of value to them. So they returned to the house and ate the meal prepared for them and went on their way. After they had gone Susannah went out and gathered up the contents of the chest, together with the bundle of rags. It contained their money. The chest has never been repaired, but it has been preserved just as the soldiers left it, with the lid torn off and a bayonet hole in the side. During the war a battle was fought on this farm, the skirmish that involved the Garst farm farther up the creek. Levi has several large bullets that he found imbedded in a tree he cut down, having reposed there since the days of 1861-65.
Issue: All born in Roanoke Co., Va.

1 - LUCILLE CATHERINE HUFFMAN, b. 2-16-1923.
2 - LEONARD LEVI HUFFMAN, b. 11-27-1928.
3 - ELIAS BENJAMIN HUFFMAN, b. 7-25-1930.
4 - ADDIE ESTELLE HUFFMAN, b. 4-26-1934.