Samuel LeFors

[dmleforce]

He was the son of Renald Rene III & Mary Gillespie.  He was the one who started this variation of our name off.  He married Margery Montgomery & together they had around 12 kids.

I haven't located him yet but I have located her & her headstone's about had it.

Samuel: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42636239
Margery: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42636321

Also a few of their kids headstones have about had it.

James Jefferson: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38375182
Anna: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44012632
John: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5721622
Mary "Polly": http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54777941
Sarah: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42636483
Eleanor: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39676789
Henry: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5721619
Thomas: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42636301
Samuel: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42636354
Whitfield: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42636386
William: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42636405

Some of them I need help putting in the correct cemetery.

Also there's a dispute over this Sarah.  We have 2 Sarah's...La Force & LeFors...married to the same man.  I had a marriage license attached to Sarah La Force & Mr. Weatherman & both Sarah & the license disappeared.  So I don't know but more help would be great.

[dmleforce]

Check out Anna's Find A Grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44012632.  She's got La Force.  Do you think she comes from one of the La Force's or do you think not all Sam's kids went by LeFors? 

[plef3d]

I wish to share my reasons for believing that Sarah LaForce Weatherman, b 1815 was the daughter of Samuel and Margery Montgomery LeFors of Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri.  I received a Family Group Sheet of Samuel and Margery's family several years ago.  It originally came from a descendant of Eleanor LeFors Casebier.

Sarah is shown as the daughter born between Mary "Polly" LaForce Henson b 1814 and Eleanor LeFors Casebier b 1818 in Kentucky. Sometime after 1828 several families were first in Morgan Co, Illinois, then in Dade County, Missouri.  The 1840 Dade County, MO Federal Census shows the following families on the same page:  John Weatherman, Joel Dobbs, Benjamin Hale, Samuel Lefors, Absalom B. Casebier and Burket Jones.  According to the genealogy of James Weatherman, his parents were John Weatherman and Sarah Dobbs.  Benjamin Hale was the father of Martha and Sarah Hale who married Whitfield Collins and Henry Lefors.  Absalom Casebier was the husband of Eleanor LeFors.  Could Burket Jones be the father of Jannetta Jones, first wife of James Jefferson Lefors? 

According to the record, Missouri Marriages, 1766-1983, James Weatherman and Sarah LaForce married on 25 Dec 1834 in Greene County, Missouri.  On the 1840 Federal Census, they are in Taney County with one son and two daughters under the age of 5.

Dade County, Greene County and Taney County as well as Barry County, where Anna LaForce Henson and Mary "Polly" LaForce Henson settled, are all in the southwestern portion of Missouri.  Rene IV or Raney and Mary Ellis LaForce settled in Pike County, which is about midway on the eastern border of Missouri.  I do not have a record of Rene IV children, but I feel it is unlikely that their Sarah was the wife of James, because of the evidence of presented above.

 

[plef3d]

Anna was one of the older children.  It could be that she had seen it written as LeForce and chose that spelling.  It is unknown what degree of education was available at that time.  I know Samuel used Leforce on the marriage bond with Margery Montgomery.  Anna, Mary "Polly" and Sarah all used Leforce...but Eleanor and the sons used the Lefors..so I guess it was something that just evolved into the LeFors/Lefors.  I supose it was just whatever your preference happened to be.

[dmleforce]

I believe you're right.  Getting the marriage thing showing she was La Force threw me off.  But considering where they traveled & where they got married I think she's Sam's daughter.

It would be nice if we could figure out anything on the other Sarah La Force.  But one La Force at a time I suppose.