15. | LAFFERTY, Jane was born on 5 Feb 1799 in Kentucky, USA (daughter of LAFFERTY, Thomas and STRODE, Eleanor Lafferty); died on 15 Jan 1880 in Platte, Missouri, USA; was buried in Hoover (north of), Platte County, Missouri. Notes:
A newspaper article in the Topeka Daily Capital, dated 26 May 1941. In that paper 93-year old Armilda Benning Williams was being interviewed about her childhood as a slave. One paragraph of the article states that "...The now-aged woman was the first of fourteen children born to slave parents, who were owned by a Kentucky woman, Mrs. Jenny Lafferty Brasfield, ("Miss Jenny" to her "people"), who moved with her husband and slaves to Platte County, Missouri, some time before the Civil War. As soon as she was old enough, Armilda served as a housemaid in the big Northwestern Missouri farm home... Miss Jenny had been "raised" by Armilda's mother..." The article indicates that Armilda's grandfather was from Winchester, KY where he "... had saved enough money to buy the freedom of four of his eight children ... but the money to free the other four never came..." The article makes many references to events and locations that were near their home in Missouri. For instance, ".... she (Armilda) remembers hearing the sound of gunfire of the battle -- or skirmish -- of Bee Creek, which was near their Missouri home...."
Buried:
Brasfield Cemetery (aka Fleming Graveyard)
Children:
- BRASFIELD, John Strode was born on 5 Apr 1825 in Clark, Kentucky, USA; died on 9 Feb 1900 in Platte, Missouri, USA; was buried in Hoover (north of), Platte County, Missouri.
- BRASFIELD, Elizabeth Willis was born on 3 Jun 1831 in Clark, Kentucky, USA; died on 9 May 1861 in Platte, Missouri, USA; was buried in Platte, Missouri, USA.
- BRASFIELD, William Alexander was born on 28 May 1822 in Clark, Kentucky, USA; died on 29 Jan 1850 in Califorina; was buried in Platte, Missouri, USA.
- 7. BRASFIELD, Polly Anne was born on 23 Apr 1820 in Clark, Kentucky, USA; died on 2 Jan 1905 in Clinton, Missouri, USA.
- BRASFIELD, Thomas Wiley Roy was born on 6 Sep 1817 in Clark, Kentucky, USA; died on 8 Nov 1873 in Platte, Missouri, USA; was buried in Platte County, Missouri (Brasfield Cemetery (aka Fleming Graveyard)).
- BRASFIELD, William Roy was born about 1835 in Kentucky, USA.
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