History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 717.
[Harrison County]  [Unity Precinct]

JNO. A. LAFFERTY, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana, was born in Harrison County,
Ky., Feb. 13, 1832, and is the son of James and Susan (Smith) Lafferty,
the former a native of Pennsylvania, born Jan. 7, 1790, and died July 15,
1866, and the latter born in Bourbon County, Ky., April 8, 1801, and died
Sept. 5, 1838.  James Lafferty was a farmer, which business he continued
till [sic] his death, and at which he learned Jno. A. the duties of self
support.  Our subject received a common school education, and on May 23,
1855, he married Miss Fanny E., daughter of John and Elizabeth Henry,
both natives of Virginia.  They have a family of eleven children: W. T.,
D. N., Tera, Susan E., James F., Francis E., Minnie, Mary E., Purlie,
Meddie and Jno. A.  Politically Mr. Lafferty has taken quite an active
part in the home contests of Harrison County; he filled the office of
Constable in Unity Precinct in 1867-'68, and was elected Sheriff of
Harrison County in 1870, and was honored by being re-elected in 1874, and
again in 1876, each term being for two years service.  During the war he
enlisted in Jno. Shawhan's Battalion, C.S.A. at Prestonsburg, Ky., in
1861, and did not return home until 1865; he is a Democrat, a Granger,
and a member of the order of A.F. & A.M.  Quite an exciting episode in
the life of our subject occurred in 1849, while he and his father were on
their way to Cincinnati with a team and wagon.  When within about twenty
miles of the city they were, while eating their dinner by the roadside,
set upon by two robbers.  In the early part of the conflict, his father
was hit upon the head and partially disabled, and though Jno. A. at that
date was but a boy, he fought with the coolness of an old trooper and the
fierceness of a tiger.  The result of the fight was the death of one of
the robbers and the flight of the other.  He now enjoys the respect and
confidence of the community in which he resides.

Lafferty Smith Henry
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Bourbon-KY VA PA

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