Bio of John Byers Heffelfinger, Miller Co, AR

Posted on Mon, 10 Jan 2000

Surname: Heffelfinger, Byers

It was in Cumberland County, at Newburgh, that John Byers Heffelfinger was
born July 25, 1882. His father, W. P. Heffelfinger, who now resides at
Effingham, Kansas, was born in the same county March 3, 1841, grew up and
married there, and was also a school teacher for a number of years. He
taught at Newville, Pennsylvania, and at other localities in Cumberland
County, and after removing to Effingham, Kansas, in 1886 he continued his
professional work for a few years.

He subsequently took up farming, served for a number of years as police
judge at Effingham and is now retired. He is a democrat, has been almost a
lifelong member of the Methodist Church, and has served as steward. For
twenty years he has been clerk of the local camp of the Modern Woodmen of
America.

W. P. Heffelfinger married Elizabeth Anna Byers. She was born in Cumberland
County, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1841, and died at Effingham, Kansas,
February 2, 1914.

There were nine children: Agnew, a farmer at Texarkana, Arkansas; Harry, a
farmer at Effingham, Kansas; Clara, wife of C. O. Smith, a grain, feed and
coal merchant at St. Joseph, Missouri; Nora, unmarried and living at
Kirkwood, Illinois; Mabel, who lives at Effingham, Kansas; Stewart, a
farmer and present county commissioner at Effingham; Blanche, wife of J. R.
Snyder, a farmer at Farmington, Kansas; John B., who was the eighth in this
large family; and Elva, wife of T. R. Hickerson, a resident of Kansas City,
Missouri.