Elizabeth (Taub) Efird
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Elizabeth (Taub) Efird (abt. 1769 - abt. 1847)

Elizabeth Efird formerly Taub aka Dove
Born about in Lancaster, Pennsylvaniamap
Daughter of and
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Wife of — married about 1792 in the Old Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House, Cabarrus County, North Carolinamap [uncertain]
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Died about at about age 78 in Stanly, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Biography

Elizabeth Taub "Dove" was born about 1769 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Johann Georg Taub and Maria Christina Stier. In about 1792, Elizabeth married Jacob Efird in the Old Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House in Concord in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. They had eight children: George, Mary, Martin, Jacob John, Daniel, Solomon, Sarah, and Elizabeth. Jacob and Elizabeth were very prominent citizens in their community and were very active in the religious life of the area. They and some members of their family, along with Jacob's uncle Martin Ifert "Eaford" and his wife Anna Furler, were among the founders of Saint Martin's Lutheran Church in Stanly County, North Carolina. Jacob died in about 1844 in Stanly County, the Patriarch of the Efird family in America. Elizabeth Dove died in about 1847, also in Stanly County, the Matriarch of the Efird Family in America. They are both buried in the Efird Family Cemetery in Oakboro, Stanly County, North Carolina.

(I would like to note that even though I am giving the last name "Efird" for all of the children of Jacob Efird and Elizabeth Dove, when they were born, their last name was actually "Ifert". At that time, all of the Census, Church, and land records had the last name "Ifert", or an equivalent spelling, attached to them. The first time any record with anything resembling "Efird" appeared was in the 1810 Census, when the family name was spelled "Eford". By that time all of Jacob and Elizabeth Dove Efird's children had been born. The family name wasn't changed officially until much later, which is why they are all known now with the "Efird" last name.)

Children of Jacob Ifert "Efird" and Elizabeth Taub "Dove" - - George Efird - born about 1793 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. He died in late 1844 in Stanly County, North Carolina. He was very probably named after his mother's father Johann Georg Taub, who was called "George" later in life. George Efird married Margarete "Grete" Coble in 1816 in Montgomery County, North Carolina. She was born in 1791 in Cabarrus County and died on 16 February 1852 in Stanly County. Her parents were David Coble and Martha Bray. - Mary E Efird - born on 1 August 1795 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and died on 1 September 1872 in Stanly County, North Carolina. She married Jacob Shoffner in 1819 in Montgomery County, North Carolina. He was born on 1 August 1797 in Cabarrus County, and died on 3 March 1858 in Stanly County. His parents were Jacob Shoffner and Elizabeth Gould. - Martin Efird - born on 29 June 1797 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and died on 17 October 1831 in Montgomery County, North Carolina. He married Mary Coble in 1821 in Montgomery County. She was born in 1800 in Montgomery County, and died in 1897 in Stanly County, North Carolina. Her parents were David Coble and Martha Bray. - Jacob John Efird - born on 24 March 1800 in Montgomery County, North Carolina and died on 19 August 1872 in Stanly County, North Carolina. He married first Catharine Cagle in 1824 in Montgomery County. She was born on 21 March 1807 in Montgomery County, and died on 22 May 1860 in Stanly County. Her parents were Benjamin Franklin Cagle and Susanna Lowder. Jacob John Efird married second Talitha A Perry on 9 September 1860 in Stanly County. She was born in 1836 in Stanly County, and died in 1870 in Stanly County. Her parents were Phillip Perry and Susannah Cagle. - Daniel Efird - born 19 September 1804 in Montgomery County, North Carolina, and died on 13 November 1848 in Stanly County, North Carolina. He married Lavinia Furr on 9 July 1827 in Montgomery County. She was born on 5 October 1806 in Montgomery County, and died on 4 November 1891 in Stanly County. Her parents were Paul Furr and Rosanna Peck. - Solomon Efird - born in 1807 in Montgomery County, North Carolina and died in 1852 in Stanly County, North Carolina. He married first Eliza E Furr on 6 April 1829 in Montgomery County. She was born on 6 April 1808 in Montgomery County, and died in 1837 in Montgomery County. Her parents were Paul Furr and Rosanna Peck. Solomon Efird married second Eliza White. She was born in 1818 in Montgomery County, and died in 1847 in Stanly County. Her parents were John Jackson White and Anna Morton. Solomon Efird married third Elizabeth Bowers in 1847 in Montgomery County. She was born in 1827 in Montgomery County. Date and place of death are unknown. Her parents were John Bowers and Margaret Lipe. - Sarah "Sally" Efird - born 1809 in Montgomery County, North Carolina, and died after 1880, possibly in Surry County, North Carolina. She married David Kimmer in 1830 in Montgomery County. He was born in 1805 in Montgomery County, and died after 1880, possibly in Surry County. His parents were Henry Kimmer and Elizabeth "Betsy" Coble. - Elizabeth "Betsy" Efird - born in 1810 in Montgomery County, North Carolina, and died after 1870 in Union County, North Carolina. She married Jonathan Austin in1831 in Montgomery County. He was born on 9 January 1809 in Union County, and died on 13 February 1877 in Union County. His parents were John Austin and Lucretia Coburn.

Sources

  • "The History and Genealogy of the Efird Family" by Judge Oscar Ogburne Efird.
  • "Baptismal Records, 1797-1847, Saint John's Lutheran Church, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina" by Adam Nicholas Marcard, and Adelaide and Eugenia Lore.
  • Wills, 1841-1923; Index to Wills, 1847-1967; Author: North Carolina Superior Court (Stanly County; Probate Place: Stanly, North Carolina.
  • North Carolina Wills: a Testator Index, 1665-1900 by Thornton W Mitchell.
  • North Carolina Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998, Stanly Wills, Volume 1-2, 1841-1865, Microfilmed by the North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Raleigh, North Carolina.




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Mecum-53 Carolyn (Mecum) Pinkerton
About Judge Oscar Ogburn Efird's book "The History and Genealogy of the Efird Family (revised) -

When Judge Oscar Ogburne Efird wrote his book "The History and Genealogy of the Efird Family", he thought that he used everything that was available to him and the two genealogists who he hired to help him in his research. He already had a lot of information that he had gathered before he began work on his book in 1953. He had to stop his work of gathering more in 1958 because he had to have cataract surgery. It may have been then that the mistake was made, possibly by the hired genealogists, the mistake that gave the wrong information about the parents of Jacob and Martin Ifert "Efird". Judge Efird's book has so much wonderful information in the beginning about Johann Georg and Chatarina Barbara Ehrenfried being their parents, but the Ehrenfrieds weren't Jacob and Martin's parents. Their last name was Ifert and they came from Rümlingen in Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland in 1771, not from Baden-Wurtemburg, Germany in 1773. Their parents were Matthias Ifert (Ifert-6) and Barbara "Barbel" Bürgin (Burgin-425), not Johann Georg and Chatarina Barbara Ehrenfried. Somehow the book "Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies" by Albert Bernhardt Faust and Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh was overlooked, the one book that has the correct information about the Efird family forebears. Maybe, since it seems that Judge Efird was so convinced that the family was German, the book wasn't even considered. It should have been if it wasn't. If Judge Efird had seen the names of Hans Jacob Ifert (Ifert-2) and Martin Ifert (Ifert-4), and their wives, he surely would have come to the conclusion that they were the Original Immigrant Ancestors of the Efird family. In June of 2013 I was looking on the Internet to try to find as much as possible about the early Efird family as I could. I don't remember exactly how but I found a "Sarah Arnfreedt Hays" on findagrave (the memorial has since been changed to 'Sarah Ehrenfried Hays"). There were flowers and a comment about being a Grandmother left by someone whose name was Laura. Taking a chance that this might possibly be the Sarah Ehrenfried from the Baptismal Record from the Church in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, I sent an email to Laura. She answered. We corresponded by email a couple of times and then had a three-hour-long telephone conversation. Laura turned out to be a very nice older lady in her early seventies who has researched her family for over thirty years. She did it the old-fashioned way, by actually going to the different locations and looking for the relevant records herself, with no help from the Internet or genealogy libraries. I asked her questions, she told me what she had found out about her Ehrenfried family. I went away from the conversation convinced that George, as she calls him, and his wife Chatarina Barbara were the parents of only Catharine, Sarah, and, I found out, Mary Ehrenfried (I've since found out that they had another daughter, Anna Margaretha.). She told me about Anna Margaretha Crites, the sister of Andrew Crites, who was the husband of George and Chatarina Barbara's oldest daughter Catharine, who was George's second wife, and their baby David Ehrenfried who was born and also died in in Westmoreland County in Pennsylvania in1792. I had already found something about a Margaret Ehrenfried, and a mention of a Sarah and a Mary Ehrenfried, but I thought that they were "George Jr's" family. It turns out that "George Jr" never existed. He was Johann Georg Ehrenfried himself after he had moved to Westmorland County, Pennsylvania. Laura also told me why that present day Efird female descendants find it to be impossible to get into the Daughters of the American Revolution under Johann Georg Ehrenfried. The DAR has done its' own research about the Ehrenfried/Efird connection, and they found no connection at all. There is a "Red Flag" for Efird descendants who want to join the DAR as descendants of Johann Georg Ehrenfried. Laura IS in it under George, because she can prove that she is descended from him and his daughter Sarah. She has a copy of Sarah's actual Christening Record from Northampton County with George's name on it, a copy of Sarah's marriage record to Abraham Hays, and a copy of George's Will from Westmorland County, Pennsylvania, which mentions Sarah and Abraham as recipiants of some of George's land and property in Westmorland Counnty after he died. She also has a copy of the Baptismal record for David Ehrenfried listing George and Margaret Ehrenfried as his parents. Laura said that she has never found any information supporting the story in Judge Efird's book, nothing at all, so she knows it is a mistake. I have corresponded more with her, and we have talked for several hours several more times. Johann Georg and Chatarina Barbara Ehrenfried had four children only, Catharine, Sarah, Mary, and Margaret. There was never a Jacob or Martin Ehrenfried. Their last name was "Ifert" and they came from Switzerland in 1771. The proof is in the book "Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies" by Albert Bernhardt Faust and Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh. Judge Efird said that there were "rumors" about the Efird family being Swiss but he had no research to prove it. He didn't have that book. That book is the proof. If you have any questions I would love to hear from you! Carolyn Pinkerton

posted by Carolyn (Mecum) Pinkerton
[Living Mecum]
When Judge Oscar Ogburne Efird wrote his book "The History and Genealogy of the Efird Family", he thought that he used everything that was available to him and the two genealogists who he hired to help him in his research. He already had much information that he had gathered in his past when he began work on his book in 1953, but he had to stop his work of gathering more in 1958 due to the fact that he had to have cataract surgery on his eyes. It may be here that the mistake was made, possibly by the hired genealogists, the mistake that gave the wrong information about the parents of Jacob, Martin, and Barbara Ifert/Efird. Judge Efird's book has so much information in the beginning about Johann Georg and Chatarina Barbara Ehrenfried being their parents, but the Ehrenfrieds weren't Jacob's, Martin's, and Barbara's parents. Their last name was Ifert and they came from Rumlingen, Sissach District, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland in 1771, not from Baden-Wurtemburg, Germany in 1773. And their parents were Matthis Ifert and Barbel/Barbara Burgin, not Johann Georg and Chatarina Barbara Ehrenfried. Somehow the book "Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the Americas" by Albert Bernhardt Faust and Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh was overlooked, the one book that has the correct information about the Efird forebears. Maybe, since it seems that Judge Efird was so convinced that the family was German, the book wasn't even considered, but it should have been if it wasn't. In June of 2013 I was looking on the Internet to try to find as much as possible about the early Efird family as I could. I don't remember exactly how but I found a "Sarah Arnfreedt Hays" on findagrave.com (the memorial has since been changed to 'Sarah Ehrenfried Hays"). There were flowers and a comment about being a Grandmother left by someone whose name was Laura. Taking a chance that this might possibly be the Sarah Ehrenfried from the Baptismal Record from the Church in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, I sent an email to her . She answered!! We corresponded by email a couple of times and then had a three-hour-long telephone conversation. Laura turned out to be a very nice older lady in her early seventies who has researched her family for over thirty years. She did it the old-fashioned way, by actually going to the different locations and looking for the relevant records herself, with no help from the Internet or LDS Libraries. I asked her questions, she told me what she had found out about her Ehrenfried family, and I went away from the conversation convinced that George, as she calls him, and his wife Chatarina Barbara were the parents of only Catharine, Sarah, and, I found out, Mary Ehrenfried. She told me about Anna Margaretha Crites, the sister of Andrew Crites, who was George's second wife, and their baby David Ehrenfried who was born and also died in 1792. I had already found something about a Margaret Ehrenfried, and a mention of a Sarah and a Mary Ehrenfried, but I thought that they were "George Jr's" family. It turns out that "George Jr" never existed. He was Johann Georg Ehrenfried himself after he had moved to Westmorland County, Pennsylvania. Laura also told me why that present day Efird female descendants find it to be impossible to get into the Daughters of the American Revolution. The DAR has done its' own research about the Ehrenfried/Efird connection, and they found NO connection at all. There is a "Red Flag" for Efird descendants who want to join the DAR as descendants of Johann Georg Ehrenfried. Laura IS in it under George, because she can prove that she is descended from him and his daughter Sarah. She has a copy of Sarah's Christening Record from Northampton County with George's name on it, a copy of Sarah's marriage record to Abraham Hays, and a copy of George's Will from Westmorland County, Pennsylvania, which mentions Sarah and Abraham as recipiants of some of George's land and property in Westmorland Counnty after he died. She also has a copy of the Baptismal record for David Ehrenfried listing George and Margaret Ehrenfried as his parents. Laura said that she has never found any information supporting the story in Judge Efird's book, nothing at all, so she knows it is a mistake. I have corresponded more with her, and we have talked for several hours several more times. Johann Georg and Chatarina Barbara Ehrenfried had three children only, Catharine, Sarah, and Mary. There was never a Jacob, Martin, or Barbara Ehrenfried. Their last name was "Ifert" and they came from Switzerland in 1771. The proof is in the book "Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the Americas" by Albert Bernhardt Faust and Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh. Judge Efird said that there were "rumors" about the Efird family being Swiss but he had no research to prove it. He didn't have that book. That book is the proof.
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Bissonnette-81 Darlene Bissonnette
Dove-1024 and Dove-135 appear to represent the same person because: These are apparent merges. These have the same name and spouse.
posted by Darlene Bissonnette

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