Emily Stokesberry

  General Notes:

Source: bios (hers, her daughter Ella and her daughter Frances) great coo k. active in church. bio written by daughter Ella.

Source: 1860 ...

Source: 1870 ...

Source: 1880 US census, Iowa, Keokuk Co, German Twp, fam 123. She is Em ma Laffer, w, f, 28, wife, married, keeping house. IA OH TN.

Source: 1895 Iowa state census, Emily Laffer, age 42, white, born Keokuk C o, residing in German Twp, Keokuk Co, Iowa.

Source: 1900 US census, Iowa, Keokuk Co, German Twp, fam 22. She is Emi ly Laffer, wife, w, f, May 1852, age 48, married 33 years. Had 5 childre n, 3 living. IA OH TN.

Source: 1910 US census, Iowa, Keokuk Co, Sigourney Twp, fam 535. She is Em ily Laffer, wife, f, w, 58, married once for 43 years, IA Unk Virginia. H ad 5 children, 3 living. With husband and dau Frances.

Source: 4 Feb 1912, Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension File s, 1861-1934
Name: Benjamin F Laffer
State Filed: Iowa
Widow: Emily Laffer

Source: 1915 Iowa state census, Sigourney, Keokuk Co, Iowa, roll IA1915_27 6. She is Emily S Laffer, f, w, 63, married, housewife, born IA. Congregat ional Church.

Source: 1920 US census, Iowa, Muscatine, Park Avenue, dated jan 12 1920. S he is Emily Laffer, head, 68, widow. IA OH TN. Living with single daught er Frances.

Source: 1925 Iowa state census, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, ro ll IA1925_1694, 2206 Miller St. She is Emily S Laffer, 72, Iowa.

Source: 1930 ...

Emily married Benjamin Franklin Laffer, son of Henry Laffer and Hannah Pritchard, on 12 Feb 1867 in Sigourney, Keokuk Co, Iowa. (Benjamin Franklin Laffer was born on 12 Feb 1838 in Sandy Twp, Tuscarawas Co, Ohio, died on 22 Jan 1916 in Sigourney, Keokuk Co, Iowa and was buried on an unknown date in Pleasant Hill, South English, Iowa.)