Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Pifer, T. J. 1844 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  T. J. PIFER, stockman and farmer, P. O. Palestine. This gentleman was born
August 14, 1844, on La Motte Prairie. His father, E. S. Pifer, was born March 1,
1816, near Harper's Ferry, Va.; he died November 10, 1849. He was an industrious
farmer, coming to this county in an early day, where he was married, December
30, 1840, to Jane S. Walker, born February 18, 1817, in Fayette County, Ohio,
she is still living. The grandparents of our subject were John and Margaret
Pifer, born respectively June 13, 1784, and March 8, 1789. Mr. T. J. Pifer went
to school in this county, and after the war commenced his heart was stirred with
patriotic zeal and a desire to save the stars and stripes. He enlisted August 2,
1862, in the Ninety-eighth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, Company E, which was
afterward mounted. He was under fire twenty-three times; he served till the
close of the war, when he came home, and was joined in matrimony, February 21,
1867, to Miss Eliza Walters, born December 23, 1850, in this county. She is a
daughter of Jacob and Stacy (McCorpin) Walters, and is the mother of four
children living-Maggie R., born December 16, 1867; Edward E., born October 2,
1869; Luther L., born August 17, 1874; and Arthur D., born October 2, 1880. Mr.
and Mrs. Pifer are members of the Union Christian Church; he has traveled
extensively; is a Republican; a Knight of Honor, and member of the "Alfred
Harrison Post," of Palestine Depart., Ill., G. A. R.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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