Lorrin Palmer Tefft

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1. Find a Grave (website). Fort Meigs Cemetery, Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio; Pvt. Loren Palmer “Squirrel Hunter” Tefft, born: 1829 in New York; died: 6 December 1868 in Wood County, Ohio (from record, which includes a copy of his obituary, which describes the hunting accident in which he was shot and killed; notes describing the origin of Squirrel Hunters, and names of his wife and two children; and provides the names and links for his parents, siblings, and children).
2. Find a Grave (website). Fort Meigs Cemetery, Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio; Lorrin Palmer Tefft, born: 12 August 1864 in Wood County, Ohio; died: 17 December 1885 in Waterville, Lucas County, Ohio (from record, which includes a note naming his parents; and provides the names and links for his father and sibling).
3. U.S. Federal Census, 1870, Ohio, Wood County, Washington Township, Page No. 23, John N. Adams, 24, New York, farmer; Flavilla Adams, 25, Ohio; Hiram Cumming, 28, Ohio, farm laborer; Ella Teft, 16, Ohio, school teacher. Living next door are: Andrew Adams, 60, Mass., farmer; Hanna Adams, 58, New York. Living next door are: Phebe Ann Teft, 34, New York; Lorain Teft, 6, Ohio.
4. U.S. Federal Census, 1880, Ohio, Lucas County, Waterville, E.D. 59, Page No. 20, Lorrin Teft, 16, Ohio [he is one of several servants in the household of Thomas and Sarah Gleason].
5. Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1897 (available at archive.com). Page 625-26, biographical sketch of Hiram Cunning, who married Ella Tefft, daughter of L. P. and Phoebe Ann (Adams) Tefft. The sketch provides vital and biographical details and the names of Hiram’s parents (Hiram and Keziah (Raymond) Cunning), Hiram and Ella’s children (Oreanna, Hiram T., Flavilla, and Irene Myrtle), Phoebe’s three siblings (an infant child, Florence G., and Lorin P.).