My Genealogy Hound

JOSEPH H. NETHERLAND, retired farmer, Vevay, is a native of Carrolton, Ky., born in 1825. His parents were Christian P. and Sarah (McIntire) Netherland, the former born in Virginia in 1791, the latter in Londonderry, Ireland in the same year; they married in Vevay in 1817; the father was a merchant and farmer and died in October, 1832, of cholera, his widow surviving till 1873. Our subject was educated in the Carrolton Academy. He enlisted in the Mexican war for one year in Col. Marshal’s Kentucky Cavalry, but was discharged in about six months on account of disability. From the spring of 1850 to the winter of 1853, Mr. Netherland was in California, where he served as justice two years. Returning home he married in 1858, Miss Betsey W. Hafford, who was born in Craig Township in 1831. He followed farming as his chief pursuit till 1870, in which year he was elected clerk of court in which office he served eight years with entire satisfaction to all interested. Since that time Mr. Netherland has not been actively engaged in business. He was a Whig up to 1856, but since has been a Democrat; is a member of the Masonic order and the Baptist Church. Mrs. Netherlands parents, Ebenezer and Lucy E. (Freeman) Hafford, were both natives of Plymouth County, Mass., the former born in 1788; the latter in 1807. They were married in the county to which Mr. Hafford came in 1820 and Mrs. H. in 1817. The father died in 1856, the mother in 1846.