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¡¡HE following pages came into existence by
request of the relatives of the Belfry Family,
convened at a social gathering. It chiefly
arose through the grand-children of Mr. Belfry
being desirous of obtaining information concerning
their ancestors. Previous to the request having
been put into business form, the writer had no intention of entering into the necessarily protracted
effort of preparing a record of facts, several of which
were reminiscences of this remarkable family, that
would form anything like a history. Hence there
had been no previous preparation for this undertaking.
Mr. and Mrs. Belfry had Ibeen many years deceased,
and items of interest that ought to have been recorded,
which they in their lifetime were known to relate, had
nearly faded from memory, and other items of now
seeming importance for a work of this kind were
forgotten, or may have been omitted in their rehearsal
of occurrences. Their oldest son, Oran, who was
acquainted with many relatives, and had an excellent
memory concerning ancestors and their connections,
had been deceased also some ten or twelve years; iv PREFACE.
therefore these individuals from whom much information may have been obtained in former years, had
ceased to refresh ...
A Brief history of Jacob Belfry, Sen., with a sketch of his wife and family and their descendants : containing also an outline of Sherman genealogy and biography
