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

598 - EMERY ALTON PEFFLEY (son of No.589) married at El Dorado, Kan., July 8th, 1903, BEULAH MAUD SAPPINGTON, born at Winchester, Ill., Nov. 20th, 1873, (dau. of SAMUEL HARTLEY and EMMA (Dickerson) SAPPINGTON).

Emery moved to El Dorado with his parents in 1886. For several years, when not in school, he was employed on ranches as a rider in the old Indian Territory and also in Wyoming; was there when it became a state. Later he went into office work, and finally banking, which he has followed most of his life. He spent three years in the U. S. Indian Service as Superintendent, being located at Spokane, Wash., Pawhuska, Okla., and Rosebud, S. D. He spent six years in Arizona, part of the time in a bank at Tucson, and the rest of the time in mining. He lived eight years in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. At present he is in the real estate and insurance business. He has frequently written Western Stories for publication. Emery has inherited the Peffley ability in wood carving, and in his leisure moments carves excellent bas reliefs.

Address (as of 1938); Brady, Texas.

Issue:

1 - EMMA KATHLEEN PEFFLEY, b. 2-25-1907, Magnolia, Ark.
2 - KERMIT ALTON PEFFLEY, b. 7-23-1909, d. 2-6-1914.
3 - EMERY AUBREY PEFFLEY, b. 12-28-1914.