ORFIELD, Perry P.

ORFIELD, PERRY, MERCER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/19/2014 at 04:36:08

Biography ~ Perry P. Orfield

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 620:

PERRY P. ORFIELD, section 26, Bloomington Township, is a native of Washington County, Virginia, born September 12, 1853, a son of PERSTON and KEZIAH (PERRY) ORFIELD. He was the third of a family of eight children, the names of the others being – WILLIAM, SARAH, WESLEY, MARGARET J., EMMITT, JULIA and JOHN. When he was fourteen years of age he came to Iowa and lived in Jefferson County two years. the winter of 1859-’60 he spent in Decatur County, and then went to Kansas, returning to Decatur County in 1873, when he bought the farm where he now lives, which contains 165 acres of land under a high state of cultivation. He has a pleasant residence and comfortable farm buildings, a good orchard, and his surroundings betoken the thrift and energy of a practical and enterprising farmer. In addition to his home farm he owns 160 acres of improved land in Riley Township, Ringgold County. Mr. ORFIELD was married December 20, 1873, to Miss LUCINDA MERCER, daughter to JOHN MERCER, a pioneer of Decatur County, who, when his country called for volunteers, enlisted in the Thirty-fourth Iowa Infantry, and died in the hospital at St. Louis in 1864. Mr. and Mrs. ORFIELD have one son - JOHN T., born in October, 1874.

Transcribed by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historial Society Musuem, January of 2014