Hi,
I am new here. My family has told me that we are related to Joe LeFors but I have not been given much information other than that. Now that I am a certain age and most of my family is gone, I want to know more about the Joe LeFors blood line.

All I know is my grandfather Lefors, nicknamed pinky (don't know his real first name) left his family, a wife and sons. He later remarried my grandmother in Cordelaine idaho, then moved to Portland Oregon and had 5 more children (4 girls and a boy).

This is a long shot of course. Does anyone know about my grandfather, Pinky LeFors born 1895 and/or how he is related to Joe LeFors?

Jenny, There is a lot of family information on the family of Joe LeFors in the book "Facts As I Remember Them" The Autobiography of Rufe LeFors, edited by John Allen Peterson. Rufe was an older brother of Joe (Joseph Shelby LeFors). Rufe and Joe were children of James J. LeFors and Mahala West. James and Mahala had five children born in Dade County Missouri; Alzada, Dollie, Perry, William, and Newton. They had eight children born in Arkansas near Jenny Lind; Sam, Katie, Ike, Rufe, born 08/25/1859, Joe,Jeff, Ida, and Bob. The oldest son, Perry, was one of the first settlers in the Texas panhandle after the plains Indians were forced out of the area. The town of LeFors, Texas in Gray county was named after Perry. The airport in Pampa, TX, is also named after Perry. In 1874 the father James, Newton, Sam, Rufe, Joe, Jeff, Bob, Ida, Katie and husband John Steele, and their children Arthur and Albert, relocated their livestock and their selves to the panhandle of Texas with Perry. If your grandfather was born in 1895 he probably was a great-grandchild of James and Mahala. The autobiography of Rufe mentions many LeFors, but no Pinky.

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Jenny

I have done quite a bit of genealogy digging on the Lefors clan as they are mixed in genetically with the outlaw Perry "Kinch" West's family. If you will email me directly or post your lineage info I will be happy to dig a little deeper and try to help you establish a connection. Feel free to email me diretly at:
dironahlquist@yahoo.com