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    1. [KYGREENU-L] EIFORT
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    3. Because the EIFORT question raised so much interest, I will quote, in the entirety, what is listed in the Supplement to History of Greenup County Kentucky. It starts on page 98 of the Supplement: "Col. Sebastian Eifort was born near Frankfort, Germany in 1817. He came with his parents to America in 1832. They settled at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He went to Jackson, OH in 1836, and was later connected with the iron furnance there. He married Rachel, daughter of William and Rachel Tomlinson Jackson. He became manager of Bloom Furnace in Scioto County and helped to build and operate Harrison Furnace. In 1885, Sebastian Eifort and his family moved to Kentucky. He bought land in Carter County and helped build Boone Furnace, which was operated later under the name of Eifort, Bennett and Company. In 1869, he sold his interest in Boone Furnace and became manager of Hunnewell Furnace, where he remained for thirteen years. He retired to his home on Main Street, in Greenup, where he died in 1893. On March 17, 1892, Col. Eifort and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home in Greenup. An interesting incident was that Aunt Evaline Jackson (colored) who had prepared the wedding supper for Mamie, the younger daughter, twenty-two years before, was the presiding cook at the anniversary celebration for the parents. Col. and Mrs. Eifort were the parents of nine children, William Henry, James M., Kate, Mary Jane, Fabian S., Joseph B., Warren, Charles and Oscar. William Henry served in the Civil War with ranks of captain, major, and lieutenant colonel. He was killed at Tricene, Tennessee, in 1864, and is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery at Portsmouth, Ohio. Kate married John Warnock, agent for Boone Furnace and later mail agent for E.K.R.R. Mr. Warnock died but the family, Myra, Annie, Ray and Henry, lived in Greenup for many years. Annie married Nathaniel Callon and Ray married Nellie Scott before the family moved to California. The second daughter of Col. and Mrs. Eifort, Mary Jane (Mamie), married Charles Hertel, a merchant of Greenup. They were the parents of Laura Baldwin of St. Albans, W. Va., Nora who married Robert L. Wilson, Rachel, who married Marvin Miller, William E. (Brownie), and Clifford, who married Martha Crawford and lived at Hinton, W. Va. Fabian married Margaret Alexander and was in business with his father at Hunnewell Furnace, living for some time in the Eifort home at Greenup. Children of the family were Nell, Henry E., Louis C., Ina and Hazel. The family moved to Ashland, where members of the family are still living. Joseph married Agnes Radspinner. They moved to North Carolina." The above is the entire reference in the Supplement. Dan

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