Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 923
SAMUEL MEFFERD

Samuel MEFFERD, a resident of section 30, Douglas Township, was born in Muhlenburg County, Ky., October 8, 1842, and when a child moved with his parents to Butler County, the same State, where they remained until 1850. In the spring of that year the family started with ox-teams for the West. They first halted in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where they remained one month and then located in Jefferson Township, Harrison County. In 1853 they left that placed and moved to their present home on section 30, Douglas Township. When they moved to the township but few settlers had taken up land; one or two families had made a short residence, but soon went on to Utah. There was a cabin on the land taken by his father. He built another log house, which has since been weather-boarded and is still used as a residence.

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