Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
BAKER TOWNSHIP
PAGE 366

ISAAC LAFAVER was born in Virginia in 1801.  He is the third of the eight children
of Abraham and Mary (Brock) Lafaver, natives of Virginia, the former of French and
the latter of Dutch descent.  Isaac was reared on a farm.  His parents moved to Wayne 
County, Ky., about 1806, where he attended the primitive schools of that time.  About
the year 1816, his parents moved to this State and settled in Washington County, where
they entered 300, and cleared 100 acres thereof.  About 1823, they came to this county,
entered land in this township, where Abraham Lafaver died in 1840.  October 23, 1823,
Isaac married Mary, daughter of Michael Cooper, a soldier of the Revolution.  To this
union were born nine children--John, Jacob, James, Isaac, Mary, Louisa, Nancy, Lovina
and Abraham (deceased).  In 1824, our subject came to this county, entered eighty acres
on White River bottoms, and forty where he now resides.  To this, he has added 100 
acres, since purchased.  This land is well stocked, cultivated and improved, with good
orchards.  In 1826, Mr. Lafaver moved to this township.  He has been a worthily suc-
cessful man;  has served nine years as Justice of the Peace, and is a Democrat, having
given his first vote for Gen. Jackson.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
as was his wife, who died in 1880, aged seventy-five years.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn 

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