Fayette Heffner

As printed in 1906

FAYETTE HEFFNER, deceased, was a well-known and most highly respected citizen of Salt Creek township, where he was born May 2, 1855, and died October 27. 1897. His parents were Samuel and Elizabeth (Holler) Heffner. Extended mention of this prominent I old family of this county will be found in another part of this work.

Lafayette Heffner attended the district schools through his boyhood and into youth, until farm work claimed all his time. He grew up a thorough farmer, well acquainted with all the details which make the difference between a successful and an unsuccessful agriculturist. He was industrious and possessed excellent business judgment. His estate consisted of a farm of 135 acres, all of which he placed under an excellent state of cultivation. Pie also owned excellent stock and had his farm equipped with good buildings and the best of farm machinery.

On February 11, 1886, Mr. Heffner was married to Laura Ivarshner, who was born in Hocking County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Daniel and Priizabeth (Wiggins) Ivarshner. who still reside in Hocking County. Mr. and Mrs. Pleffner had two sons born to them, Clarence and Earl. They, with their estimable mother, have suffered a great loss in the death of the husband and father. In the former relation he was kind and careful, affectionate and thoughtful, and in the latter he was all that a devoted parent could be.

In his neighborhood and township, Mr. Pleffner was most highly thought of. He was chosen school director of District No. 5, because his fellow-citizens knew that he would give close attention to the duties of the office and he was seldom absent from the appointed meetings and did much to make his district school a credit to the locality. Mr. Heffner was a worthy member of the Evangelical Association. as is his widow, and both heartily seconded the benevolent work suggested and followed out by their pastor. The family is very well known and regret was universal that Salt Creek township should lose so excellent a citizen as was the late Lafayette Pleffner.

As printed in History of Pickaway County, Ohio and representative citizens (1906). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.