MARY MAGDALENE ROBINSON
The Peffley, Peffly, Pefley Families in America, A historical and
genealogical record of the Peffley, Peffly and Pefley families from
1729-1938; Published in 1938, By May Miller Frost and Clarence Earl Frost
Call Number: R929.2 P375
551--JOHN PEFFLEY (son of No. 5 ) married in Botetourt Co., Va., May
21st, 1828,, born in Bot. Co., Va., Jan. 11th, 1808, died at Ladoga,
Oct. 12th, 1883;
MARY MAGDALENE ROBINSON (daughter of THOMAS and SARAH
ROBINSON).
Both are buried in
Thomas Robinson, Jr., was born in
father was a Captain during the Revolutionary War. Grant E. Rose,
Ladoga, has a tin lantern that Capt. Robinson carried during the War.
Issue: First 3 born in Bot. Co.,
1--JOEL PEFFLEY, b. 3-22-1829, d. 11-2-1917.
2--JOHN ROBINSON PEFFLEY, b. 4-9-1830, d. 7-1-1909.
3--CIRCLE PEFFLEY, b. 6-26-1831, d. 8-1-1912.
4--THOMAS PEFFLEY, b. 3-2-1833, d. 2-22-1919.
5--ZACHARIAH PEFFLEY, b. 9-24-1834, d. 2-1-1921.
6--CYRUS PEFFLEY, b. 8-12-1836, d. 8-27-1842.
7--BENJ. FRANKLIN PEFFLEY, b. 10-28-1838, d.
7-21-1840.
8--SARAH PEFFLEY, b. 4-24-1841, d. 2-26-1923.
9--DAVID HENRY PEFFLEY, b. 12-11-1844, d. 8-29-1922.
10--MARY
11--WILLIAM CICERO PEFFLEY, b. 5-24-1850, d. 6-27-1851.
12--LAVINIA ANN PEFFLEY, b. 2-2-1855, d. 6-25-1932.
John Peffley was a member of the Church of the
Brethren. He had a large
German bible covered with heavy calf-skin and bound in brass, with heavy
metal clasps. It was printed by the Christoff Saur
Press,
Penna., in 1776. He used to read it to his children and translate the
German. The bible is now in the vault of the Ladoga Bldg. & Loan Ass'n.
for safe- keeping. There are no family records in the
bible. They were
evidently removed when the book was given to the Church.
WILL ASSIGNING THE BIBLE TO BRETHREN CHURCH (BETHEL CHURCH) THIS GERMAN
BIBLE, made in the year of the Declaration of our Independence, 1776,
was the property of our great-grandfather, as at his death it came into
the hands of our grandfather, David Peffley, and it
was his request that
after his death it should be the property of his oldest heir, and then
after his death the next oldest heir should take charge of it and so on
until the last and when the last heir had died it should be presented to
this church and John Peffley, deceased, being the
last heir, requested
shortly before his death that the above request of his father be carried
out, and with heirs, in accordance with the same, cheerfully present you
this sacred volume
Signed: This 11th day of November in the Year of Our Lord 1883. Joel
Peffley. John R. Peffley.
Circle Peffley. Thomas Peffley.
Zachariah
Peffley. David Peffley.
Sarah Rose. Mary M. Hunt. Lavinia Mahorney.
FROM
AN ADDRESS WRITTEN BY JOEL PEFFLEY, and read on the occasion of the
golden wedding of his parents, John and Mary Peffley,
May 21st, 1878.
Our company emigrated from Botetourt Co., Va., was made up of father's
family (five persons) one wagon, and four horses; Jacob Harshbarger's
(nine persons) two wagons, six horses; Samuel Britts (seven persons) one
wagon and buggy, five horses; McCormics (ten persons)
one wagon and one
horse; J. Fletchers (three persons) one wagon and one horse; J.
Barbour's family (three persons) one wagon one horse making a company of
thirty-seven persons leagued together for safety and convenience. We
travelled nearly three hundred miles over the mountains and about the
same distance across land where mud and water were about equally
distributed. In six weeks and five days we arrived one and one half
miles east of Ladoga and occupied an old log cabin. In the spring of
1832 we moved into an old log cabin which still stands on the lot near
our home
In 1834 we raised some wheat. We threshed and
separated this, our first
crop, by beating it out with clubs and fanning the chaff with a sheet
worked by two men, while the third stood upon a bench and dribbled it
down from a half bushel. During this year movers were as thick as
possums in a pawpaw patch; corn-huskings and
gum-sucks began to be
fashionable. We raised flax, pulled it, pounded off the seeds, put it to
rot, broke, scutched or swingled
it, and then mother spun it and wove
our wearing apparel. The every day clothing of boys our age (twelve
years) was a long tow-linen shirt, and it was regular torture to break
in a rough new linen shirt. Our Sunday clothes were tow trousers and
vests with home-made buttons, and a buckeye hat. For winter we wore
linsey-woolsey clothes and untanned coon-skin caps
with tails flying to
the breeze. For our pocket money we were allowed to dig ginseng, and
manufacture wooden pitch-forks and hickory scrub-brooms.
The sang (ginseng- Jeff Scism, 2000) we sold green
for six cents per
pound--if dried for twenty five cents per pound--and our brooms and
pitch-forks brought us a shilling each. The only hay-forks used then
were made out of a fork of a bush . We made in one
season over 1500 lbs.
of sugar from five hundred sugar trees on our place.
--
Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG
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