Kenneth Lafevers Paternal Grandparents
Kenneth Lafevers Maternal Grandparents
Kenneth Lafevers Paternal Grandparents
Kenneth Lafevers Maternal Grandparents
Rock Castle School - 1935.
Kenneth attended the one room, Rock Castle school, until the eighth grade. When Kenneth was about 13 Ada was married and pregnant and living on a farm in Tennessee while her husband, Amon, worked at a factory in Michigan. Kenneth moved to the farm to help Ada farm and stayed there about a year until Ada returned to Michigan. Kenneth then returned to his home and worked on his dad's farm until he was 18 when he was drafted into the army.
Kenneth as a teen ager.
During his time in the the army, he went to Camp Pendleton, Virginia for basic training (1945) and then to Germany to serve for a year as a Peacekeeper. The war was over by then and they were just there to keep the peace in different towns in Germany. When his tour of duty was over (6 months basic training and 12 months in Germany) he re-enlisted. This time it was for a year and he was stationed at Fort Mead in Washington DC for the entire time. He served as a MP during this time. He got out of the Army in 1947.
Kenneth Lafever - 1948
Nora Bristow in Glen Miller Park in Richmond
Kenneth, Nora and Duane and Karen Bristow at the farm house in Kentucky
Kenneth lived in an apartment in Richmond until about 1954.
Kenneth and the men he worked with.
In 1975 the Avco plant was purchased by Design and Manufacturing, D&M, and Kenneth worked there and at their plant in Connersville, Indiana until 1986 when the plant was sold to Sanyo Corp.
In 1950 Kenneth bought an apartment house with four apartments at 201 South 7th Street in Richmond. He moved into the attic there about 1954 and lived there or in one of his apartments in the house for the next 55 years. His tenants were almost all older people whom he helped with problems with aging. For a while he had a contract with Medicaid to provide housing for eligible Medicaid recipents.
His interests during this time included bowling, sewing (he tried making all his own clothes so he wouldn't have to buy clothing), and he was a Cincinnati Reds baseball fan. In 1976 he bought his first car and the only new car he ever bought, a Volkwagen Rabbit diesel. Kenneth bought that car because he could get about 40 mpg of diesel with it. For most of the time he lived in the apartment building, Kenneth grew a garden in a vacant lot beside his building, growing hundreds of tomato plants and other vegetables which he gave away to his neighbors.
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In 1972, Kenneth was injured in an industrial accident at work. A press exploded and a piece of metal was shot into his side and went all the way through to his backbone. His intestines were exposed and the doctors had to reinsert them. Over the next few days they kept opening the wound and washing it multiple times to prevent infection. He spent 17 days in the hospital.
After his retirement some of the people Kenneth cared for included Mrs. Kordell and Mrs. Phillips, who had lived in one of his apartments for years and who lived to be 104 years old, and James Bennett and Bill Adler, both of whom Kenneth cared for until their death. They are both buried in Earlham Cemetery in Richmond.
Bill and Ollie Adler
The Life of Lafever, Kenneth Edward
1927/07/20 to ----/--/-- male
No children
Bachelor, Factory Worker, Apt. House owner, Richmond, IN
...Date... AGE Event
1927/05/01 -1 Lafever, Myrtle Elvira (Love) [Sister] & Love, Hose - Married
1927/07/20 0 Lafever, Kenneth Edward - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever)
1929/09/13 2 Lafever, Treva Lucille (Goodwin) [Sister] - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever)
1932/02/10 4 Love, Jimmie [Nephew] - Born to Love, Hose and Lafever, Myrtle Elvira (Love)
1933/04/05 5 Lafever, Betty Cleo (Cass, McDonald) [Sister] - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever)
1933/04/06 5 Lafever, Jimmie Leo [Brother] - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever)
1933/06/21 5 Lafever, Jimmie Leo [Brother] - Died Boiling Springs, TN Oct. 1954
1934/04/05 6 Lafever, Charlie Columbus [Brother] & Spears, Betty Ann (Lafever) - Married
1935/05/12 7 Lafever, James E. [Nephew] - Born to Lafever, Charlie Columbus and Spears, Betty Ann (Lafever)
1935/07/04 7 Lafever, Asher [Grandfather] - Died
1936/09/04 9 Dilldine, Amon & Lafever, Ruba Ada (Dilldine) [Sister] - Married
1937/--/-- 9 Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) [Sister] - went to Richmond, Indiana and began working as a domestic servant.
1938/01/17 10 Goff, James -Jimmy- [Grandfather] - Died
1938/10/-- 11 Stewart, Martha (Lafever) & Lafever, Herschel [Brother] - Married
1939/03/03 11 Elrod, Canzada (Lafever) [Grandmother] - Died Putnam County, TN
1940/02/14 12 Dilldine, Carolyn June (Forsyth) [Niece] - Born to Dilldine, Amon and Lafever, Ruba Ada (Dilldine)
1941/09/09 14 Lafever, Lilly Meirl (Williams) [Niece] - Born to Lafever, Charlie Columbus and Spears, Betty Ann (Lafever)
1942/--/-- 14 Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) [Sister] - began work in a factory in Richmond, Indiana
1942/03/04 14 Lafever, Lena Dora (Sweet) [Sister] & Sweet, Richard - Married
1942/04/27 14 Bristow, Jesse Willard & Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) [Sister] - Married
Married in Albany, KY while Jesse was AWOL from WW II.
1942/09/01 15 Lafever, Beecher Franklin [Brother] & Somename, Jerri - Married
1942/11/01 15 Lafever, Lonnie Oscar [Brother] - Died
1942/11/24 15 Sweet, Delores (Miller) [Niece] - Born to Sweet, Richard and Lafever, Lena Dora (Sweet)
1943/05/16 15 Lafever, Beecher Jr. [Nephew] - Born to Lafever, Beecher Franklin
1943/12/13 16 Dilldine, Linda (Greenlee) [Niece] - Born to Dilldine, Amon and Lafever, Ruba Ada (Dilldine)
1944/09/04 17 Lafever, Mitchell Taylor [Nephew] - Born to Lafever, Beecher Franklin
1944/09/19 17 Allison, Willie Clayburn & Lafever, Alice Lorene (Allison) [Sister] - Married Cookeville, Tn
1945/03/05 17 Lafever, Luke Gilliam [Father] - Luke Gilliam and America Alice Lafever moved to Boiling Springs.
1946/09/09 19 Lafever, Elvira [Aunt] - Died
1946/10/01 19 Lafever, Robert Lonnie [Nephew] - Born to Lafever, Beecher Franklin
1947/08/29 20 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - Born to Bristow, Jesse Willard and Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow)
Reed Memorial hospital, Richmond, Indiana
1948/05/20 20 Goff, America Alice (Lafever) [Mother] - leg broken
1949/06/06 21 Lafever, Gary Leroy [Nephew] - Born to Lafever, Beecher Franklin
1949/06/06 21 Lafever, Terri Sue (Gaston) [Niece] - Born to Lafever, Beecher Franklin
1949/11/14 22 Sweet, Larry [Nephew] - Born to Sweet, Richard and Lafever, Lena Dora (Sweet)
1950/01/-- 22 Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) [Sister] - moved into new home near Albany, Kentucky and had seizures.
1950/01/15 22 Bristow, Karen Sue (Steele) [Niece] - Born to Bristow, Jesse Willard and Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow)
1950/07/01 22 Lafever, Treva Lucille (Goodwin) [Sister] & Goodwin, Robert -Buddy- - Married
1950/12/11 23 Lafever, Andrew [Uncle] - Died
1951/05/05 23 Cass, Dennis & Lafever, Betty Cleo (Cass, McDonald) [Sister] - Married
1952/05/31 24 Cass, Gary [Nephew] - Born to Lafever, Betty Cleo (Cass, McDonald)
1952/05/31 24 Cass, Larry [Nephew] - Born to Lafever, Betty Cleo (Cass, McDonald)
1953/03/28 25 Lafever, Jeffery Davis [Nephew] - Born to Lafever, Beecher Franklin
1953/03/28 25 Lafever, Judy Ann (Wise) [Niece] - Born to Lafever, Beecher Franklin
1953/07/17 25 Goodwin, Debbie (Davis) [Niece] - Born to Goodwin, Robert -Buddy- and Lafever, Treva Lucille (Goodwin)
1953/08/-- 26 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - began attending elementary school at Cowan, a one room school with 8
grades and about 25 students in Clinton County Kentucky.
1954/04/20 26 Allison, Donald Wayne [Nephew] - Born to Allison, Willie Clayburn and Lafever, Alice Lorene (Allison)
1954/08/20 27 Cass, Barry [Nephew] - Born to Lafever, Betty Cleo (Cass, McDonald)
1956/01/02 28 Bozart, Betty (Goff) [Grandmother] - Died Putnam County, Tennessee
1956/01/30 28 Lafever, Winfield [Uncle] - Died
1956/03/04 28 Goodwin, David Carroll [Nephew] - Born to Goodwin, Robert -Buddy- and Lafever, Treva Lucille (Goodwin)
1957/05/23 29 Allison, Denise Gale (Moore) [Niece] - Born to Allison, Willie Clayburn and Lafever, Alice Lorene (Allison)
1960/08/-- 33 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - went to High School at Clinton County High
1961/04/21 33 Lafever, Lilly Meirl (Williams) [Niece] & Williams, Hugh - Married
married at Ozion Baptist Church, Putnam County, TN
1963/03/15 35 Goff, America Alice (Lafever) [Mother] - Died
1964/05/-- 36 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - Graduated High School at Clinton County High
1964/09/-- 37 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - Began attending college at the University of Kentucky at Lexington
1965/04/17 37 Harlan, Eva Pearl (Bristow) & Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - Married - Married in Gainesboro, TN
1966/09/-- 39 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - Began attending Forestry school at the University of Georgia at Athens
1968/05/30 40 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - Bachelor of Science in Forestry
University of Georgia, School of Forestry, Athens, Georgia
1968/06/-- 40 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - Began employment with the Kentucky Division of Forestry at Pineville, KY
1969/10/-- 42 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - moved trailer to an apple orchard on Clear Creek in Bell County Kentucky
1970/07/08 42 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] - Born to Bristow, Roy Duane and Harlan, Eva Pearl (Bristow)
1971/10/-- 44 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - Bought a log house near Rockholds in Whitley County Kentucky and moved
1974/--/-- 46 Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) [Sister] -
multiple sclerosis caused loss of ability to walk. Confined to a wheel chair.
1974/05/-- 46 Goodwin, David Carroll [Nephew] - graduated 12th grade White County High School, Sparta, TN
1975/08/01 48 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - Incorporated Bristow Farms
1975/12/21 48 Moore, James & Allison, Denise Gale (Moore) [Niece] - Married Almyra Methodist Church, White County TN.
1976/08/-- 49 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] - began elementary school at Rockholds Elementary in Whitley County, KY
1977/06/02 49 Goodwin, David Carroll [Nephew] - began work at Thomas Industries which later became Phillips Lighting
1977/12/13 50 Bristow, Christopher Michael [Great Nephew] - Born to Bristow, Roy Duane and Harlan, Eva Pearl (Bristow)
Corbin, Kentucky
1978/01/10 50 Lafever, Charlie Columbus [Brother] - Died
1978/03/-- 50 Bristow, Christopher Michael [Great Nephew] -
open heart surgery at University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington
1979/06/-- 51 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - Left the Kentucky Division of Forestry and built a house on the family
farm in Clinton County & moved to begin farming & computer consulting.
1979/08/-- 52 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] - began 4th grade at Clinton County Elementary in Albany, Kentucky
1980/05/19 52 Lafever, Luke Gilliam [Father] - Died
1981/04/16 53 Moore, Christopher Shane [Great Nephew] - Born to Moore, James and Allison, Denise Gale (Moore)
1981/05/05 53 Lafever, Treva Lucille (Goodwin) [Sister] - Died Cancer Putnam County, Tennessee
1982/06/26 54 Sheffeur, Beth (Allison) & Allison, Donald Wayne [Nephew] - Married Catholic Church, Cookeville, TN
1983/08/-- 56 Bristow, Christopher Michael [Great Nephew] - entered kindergarten at Albany Elementary School
1983/10/16 56 Allison, Ryan Patrick [Great Nephew] - Born to Allison, Donald Wayne and Sheffeur, Beth (Allison)
1984/08/-- 57 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] - began high school at Clinton County High
1985/07/13 57 Clark, Henrietta Christina & Goodwin, David Carroll [Nephew] - Married
Almyra United Methodist Church, Sparta, TN
1987/06/-- 59 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] - Governor's Scholar's Program at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky
1987/09/-- 60 Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) [Sister] -
hospitalized for bed sores and spent the rest of her life in nursing homes
1988/04/30 60 Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) [Sister] -
admitted to Master's Health Care Center in Algood, TN where she spent the rest of her life making latch hooks.
1988/05/-- 60 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] - graduated Clinton County High School
1988/09/-- 61 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] - began college at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky
1989/06/-- 61 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] - spent 8 weeks in Army basic training at Fort Knox.
1990/06/12 62 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] - went to Brazil to spend 6 weeks in Baptist missionary work.
1991/01/15 63 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] - Army Reserve Unit activated for the Persian Gulf War (Desert Storm)
David spent three months training tankers at Fort Knox
1992/05/-- 64 Bristow, Christopher Michael [Great Nephew] - graduated from the eighth grade at Clinton County Elementary
1992/05/28 64 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] & Galbreath, Latisha Mona Lisa (Bristow) - Married
Married in Danville, Boyle county, Kentucky
1992/09/-- 65 Bristow, Christopher Michael [Great Nephew] - began high school at Clinton County High
1993/05/30 65 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] - Bachelor of Arts - English Centre College - Danville, Kentucky
1993/05/30 65 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] - graduated Centre College with a BA degree.
Living in Danville and working for UPS and delivering Papa John's pizza.
1993/09/01 66 Bristow, Roy Duane [Nephew] - with Karen bought out L. E. Bristow's interest in Bristow Farms, Inc.
1994/05/13 66 Lafever, Betty Cleo (Cass, McDonald) [Sister] - Died
1994/09/18 67 Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) [Sister] - Died Heart, Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis
Cookeville, Tennessee Gap Creek Cemetery, Wayne County KY
1994/09/21 67 Lafever, Herschel [Brother] - Died
1995/01/24 67 Lafever, Beecher Franklin [Brother] - Died
2003/12/12 75 Bristow, David Jesse [Great Nephew] & Galbreath, Latisha Mona Lisa (Bristow) - Divorced
2004/06/20 76 Lafever, Lena Dora (Sweet) [Sister] - Died Indianapolis, Indiana
2008/11/22 81 Lafever, Ruba Ada (Dilldine) [Sister] - Died Old age
Pontiac, Michigan cremated - ashes buried in Tennessee
Family and Social Relations
of Lafever, Kenneth Edward 1927/07/20
* Lafever, Thomas Samuel ----/--/-- Great Grandfather 1
* Trobaugh, Rachel ----/--/-- Great Grandmother 2
* Lafever, Asher 1850/11/14 Grandfather 1
* Elrod, Canzada (Lafever) 1854/02/12 Grandmother 2
* Goff, James -Jimmy- 1854/02/01 Grandfather 3
* Bozart, Betty (Goff) 1871/06/18 Grandmother 4
* Lafever, Luke Gilliam 1885/03/14 Father 1
* Goff, America Alice (Lafever) 1891/07/17 Mother 2
* Lafever, James Monroe 1872/08/31 Uncle 1
* Lafever, Andrew 1875/06/14 Uncle 1
* Lafever, Mary L. 1877/08/29 Aunt 1
* Lafever, Eli 1880/04/07 Uncle 1
* Lafever, Levi Lee 1883/04/08 Uncle 1
* Lafever, Winfield 1889/03/01 Uncle 1
* Lafever, Asher 1890/10/15 Uncle 1
* Lafever, Elvira 1894/05/02 Aunt 1
* Lafever, Columbus 1896/09/09 Uncle 1
* Goff, Ada ----/--/-- Aunt 3
* Goff, Betty Ann ----/--/-- Aunt 3
* Goff, Charlie ----/--/-- Uncle 3
* Goff, Delbert ----/--/-- Uncle 3
* Goff, Gertrude ----/--/-- Aunt 3
* Goff, Ida ----/--/-- Aunt 3
* Goff, Jimmie ----/--/-- Uncle 3
* Goff, Lanis ----/--/-- Uncle 3
* Goff, Nancy ----/--/-- Aunt 3
* Lafever, Gilbert ----/--/-- 1st cousin 8
* Lafever, Willie ----/--/-- 1st cousin once remo 1
* Lafever, Myrtle Elvira (Love) 1908/11/11 Sister 1
* Lafever, Charlie Columbus 1910/10/08 Brother 1
* Lafever, Herschel 1912/12/03 Brother 1
* Lafever, Ruba Ada (Dilldine) 1915/02/06 Sister 1
* Lafever, Lonnie Oscar 1917/06/29 Brother 1
* Lafever, Beecher Franklin 1919/11/24 Brother 1
* Lafever, Lena Dora (Sweet) 1922/03/14 Sister 1
* Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) 1922/03/14 Sister 1
* Lafever, Alice Lorene (Allison) 1924/08/29 Sister 1
* Lafever, Treva Lucille (Goodwin) 1929/09/13 Sister 1
* Lafever, Betty Cleo (Cass, McDonald) 1933/04/05 Sister 1
* Lafever, Jimmie Leo 1933/04/06 Brother 1
* Allison, Donald Wayne 1954/04/20 Nephew 2
* Allison, Denise Gale (Moore) 1957/05/23 Niece 2
* Goodwin, Debbie (Davis) 1953/07/17 Niece 3
* Goodwin, David Carroll 1956/03/04 Nephew 3
* Cass, Gary 1952/05/31 Nephew 4
* Cass, Larry 1952/05/31 Nephew 4
* Cass, Barry 1954/08/20 Nephew 4
* Lafever, Beecher Jr. 1943/05/16 Nephew 6
* Lafever, Mitchell Taylor 1944/09/04 Nephew 6
* Lafever, Robert Lonnie 1946/10/01 Nephew 6
* Lafever, Gary Leroy 1949/06/06 Nephew 6
* Lafever, Terri Sue (Gaston) 1949/06/06 Niece 6
* Lafever, Jeffery Davis 1953/03/28 Nephew 6
* Lafever, Judy Ann (Wise) 1953/03/28 Niece 6
* Lafever, Marjorie (Welch) ----/--/-- Niece 7
* Lafever, Michael ----/--/-- Nephew 7
* Sweet, Delores (Miller) 1942/11/24 Niece 8
* Sweet, Larry 1949/11/14 Nephew 8
* Lafever, James E. 1935/05/12 Nephew 9
* Lafever, Lilly Meirl (Williams) 1941/09/09 Niece 9
* Dilldine, Carolyn June (Forsyth) 1940/02/14 Niece 10
* Dilldine, Linda (Greenlee) 1943/12/13 Niece 10
* Love, Jimmie 1932/02/10 Nephew 11
* Bristow, Roy Duane 1947/08/29 Nephew 12
* Bristow, Karen Sue (Steele) 1950/01/15 Niece 12
* Moore, Christopher Shane 1981/04/16 Great Nephew 1
* Allison, Ryan Patrick 1983/10/16 Great Nephew 2
* Welch, Sherrie S. ----/--/-- Great Niece 16
* Miller, Susan (Waymire) ----/--/-- Great Niece 18
* Williams, Traci ----/--/-- Great Niece 20
* Greenlee, Lisa (LaSala) ----/--/-- Great Niece 22
* Bristow, David Jesse 1970/07/08 Great Nephew 25
* Bristow, Christopher Michael 1977/12/13 Great Nephew 25
* Lafever, Kenneth Edward 1927/07/20 Individual 1
Ancestor Family Tree
* Lafever, Abraham1750 M 1, Zink, Catherina ---- F 1
* Lafever, Andrew J.1774 M 2, Ard, Nancy ---- F 1
* Lafever, Asher1812 M 3
* Lafever, Thomas Samuel---- M 4, Trobaugh, Rachel ---- F 1
* Lafever, Asher---- M 5, Smith, Cansada (Lafever) ---- F 1
* Lafever, Luke Gilliam1885 M 6, Goff, America Alice (Lafever) 1891 F 2
* Lafever, Kenneth---- M 7
Gilliam Lafever's 90th birthday - March 9, 1975
Kenneth at Golden Rule Nursing Home Sept. 22, 2009
Kenneth's Sister - Myrtle.
born: November 11, 1908 - 18 years old when Kenneth was born
Kenneth's Brother - Charlie.
born: October 8, 1910 - 16 years old when Kenneth was born
Kenneth's Brother - Herschel.
born: December 3, 1912 - 14 years old when Kenneth was born
Kenneth's Sister - Ada.
born: February 6, 1915 - 12 years old when Kenneth was born
Kenneth's Brother - Oscar - killed in WW II.
born: June 29, 1917 - 10 years old when Kenneth was born
Kenneth's Brother - Beecher - during WW II.
born: November 24, 1919 - 7 years old when Kenneth was born
Kenneth's Sisters - Nora and Dora - twins.
born: March 14, 1922 - 5 years old when Kenneth was born
Kenneth's Sister - Lorene.
born: August 29, 1924 - 2 years old when Kenneth was born
Kenneth's Sister - Treva.
born: September 13, 1929 - Kenneth was 2 years old when she was born
Kenneth's Sister - Betty.
born: April 6, 1933 - Kenneth was 5 years old when she was born
Lorene, Donald, Beth and Ryan Allison - Kenneth's sister and her family
Kenneth with his sister, Lorene - Oct. 2009
Kenneth with his sister, Lorene, and her son, Donald - Oct. 2009
