Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 917
LEMUEL MEFFERD

Lemuel MEFFERD ranks among the vanguard of pioneers to Harrison County, coming as he did in the early spring of 1850, forty-one years ago, when he was but a lad of seven summers. The family stopped in Jefferson Township until 1853, when they removed to Douglas Township, his father being one of the earliest settlers in Harrison County. He remained at home until he was twenty-six years old, after which he rented land of his brother, in the same township, ad in July, 1872, he purchased forty acres of land on section 28, Douglas Township, broke it up and built a house before he left his brother's farm, and kept adding to this tract until he now has two hundred and fifty acres.

Mr. MEFFERD is a native of Newlingburg, Ky., from which locality the family removed when they came to Harrison County. He was married to Miss Mary R. RICHMOND, in Harrison County, Iowa, Mary 8, 1869, and they are the parents of six children � George L., Isabella, Frederick, Pearl E., Arthur and Reuben R.

Mary R. (RICHMOND) MEFFERD, wife of our subject, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 3, 1854, and when six years old accompanied her mother to Harrison County, her father having died in Utah. She is a member of the Latter Day Saints Church.

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