William B. Lefferson
The above was one of five children of Garret Lefferson, who was born in the State of New Jersey about 1795, and came to Ohio in the early part of the present century, and located in Hamilton County. Here in 1816 he married Sarah Barkalow, and remained in Hamilton County until he died in 1828. His widow lived to the age of seventy-seven years, when she died in Butler County, Ohio, in 1875. William Letferson, the one of whom we write, was born in Hamilton County in 1823, and was but five years of age at the death of his father. He then went to live with his grandfather Barkalow, with whom he remained until he was twenty-one years of age. In 1848 he came to Shelby County, and bought the land owned by his mother given to her by her father, William P. Barkalow. Shortly after coming to the county he formed the acquaintance of Isabel J. Reynolds, to 
whom he was married in 1850. They have raised five children, as follows: David F., born 1852; James B., born 1853; Sarah B., born 1857; Chas. G., born 1858; and Edward C., born 1862. Mr. Letferson is now located on the old homestead of William Berry, near the site of the old red mill, built prior to the war of 1812. David Reynolds, father of Mrs. Lefferson, was born in Pennsylvania in 1786, married Sarah Stewart in 1813. When they first came-to Ohio they located in Warren County, but removed to Shelby County in 1830 when Mrs. Lefferson was four years of age. Mr. Reynolds lived in Orange till he died in 1868.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883