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

857 - REV. JOSEPH PEFFLEY (son of No.664) married at Dayton, Ohio, Jan. 3rd, 1839 CATHERINE BURTNER, born in Cumberland Co., Pa., June 9th, 1819, died Nov. 7th, 1884, South Bend, Ind. Both are buried in the South Bend Cemetery.

Joseph was a minister in the Church of the Brethren, he moved to Indiana between 1841 and 1844 and settled on a farm in St. Joe. Co., Ind.

Issue:

1 - SIMON PETER PEFFLEY, b. 10-10-1839, Dayton, O., d. 2-9-1917, So. Bend, Ind.
2 - HENRY CLAY PEFFLEY, b. 10-13-1841, Dayton, O., d. Oct., 1926, So. Bend.
3 - JOSEPHUS PEFFLEY, b. 2-22-1844, Goshen, Ind., d. 11-9-1846, Goshen.
4 - DANIEL WEBSTER PEFFLEY, b. 8-28-1846, Goshen, Ind., d. July 1921, So. Bend.
5 - EPHRAIM PEFFLEY, b. 12-30-1848, So. Bend, d. May 1922, So. Bend, Ind. (All buried in City Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.)

E.[Ephraim] H. PEFFLEY. A biographical compendium of St. Joseph county, Ind., would be incomplete were not mention made of the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch, for he is a man of much public spirit; he donates liberally to all public enterprises and gives his influence to every just measure for the promotion of the common good. He has resided in the county all his life and the people have had every opportunity to become familiar with his character and qualifications and his good name has always remained unsullied. His birth occurred in Warren township, December 30, 1848, Joseph and Catherine (Burtner) Peffiey, natives of Lebanon county, Penn., being his parents. The family originated in Germany, from which country the grandfather came .Joseph Peffley was a minister of the United Brethren Church and for thirty-five years preached the doctrines of Christianity in Elkhart and St. Joseph counties. In September, 1848, he located in Warren township, of this county, where he purchased a farm on which he lived until the day of his death, January 23, 1885. His wife was called from life November 7, of the previous year, having borne her husband four children: Simon, Henry, Daniel and Ephraim. E. H. Peffiey has always been familiar with farming and has made that his chief means of livelihood. In the fall of 1873 he moved to Greene township, where he has since resided on a well-improved farm of ninety-four acres, which, if small, is so admirably tilled that it yields a paying income. He has always been a Republican in his political views since he became old enough to vote, and his party showed its appreciation of his faithfulness in April, 1888, by electing him to the office of township trustee and honoring him by a re-election in 1890. He has displayed much ability in discharging his duties, and is in every way capable of filling a much more responsible position. In 1871 Anna Robertson, a daughter of J. W. Robertson, of South Bend, became his wife, and to their union two children have been given: V. Mariel and Clyde R. Mr. Peffley, besides thoroughly tilling his farm after the most approved methods, also gives considerable attention to raising sheep and thoroughbred hogs.

“Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana
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