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  • Lafayette County, Wisconsin

    Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lafayette County, Wisconsin. Official Website Founded in 1846, the county was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French general who rendered assistance to the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties Grant County Jo Daviess County, Illinois Iowa County Green County Stephenson Co...

  • Lafayette County, Mississippi

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lafayette County, Mississippi. Official Website Established in 1836, Lafayette County was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette , the Frenchman who had heroically befriended the new American Republic. It was one of ten counties into which the Chickasaw Cession was divided. The Ole Miss riot of 1962, or Battle of Oxford, was an...

  • First Battle of Lexington, Missouri (1861), US Civil War

    The siege of Lexington, also known as the First Battle of Lexington or the Battle of the Hemp Bales, was a minor conflict of the American Civil War. The siege took place from September 13 to 20, 1861 between the Union Army and the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard in Lexington, county seat of Lafayette County, Missouri. The victory won by the Missouri Guard bolstered the considerable Souther...

  • Lafayette County, Missouri

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lafayette County, Missouri.= Official Website =The county was organized November 16, 1820 from Cooper County and originally named Lillard County for James Lillard of Tennessee, who served in the first state constitutional convention and first state legislature. It was renamed Lafayette County on February 16, 1825, in honor of Revoluti...

  • Lafayette County,Florida

    This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Lafayette County.= Wikipedia =The county was named for Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette .

  • Lafayette County, Arkansas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lafayette County, Arkansas.Lafayette County was formed on October 15, 1827 and named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette , a French military hero of the American Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties & Parishes * Hempstead County * Miller County * Nevada County * Bossier Parish, Louis. * Webster Parish, Louis. * Caddo Parish, Louis.

  • Missouri State Veterans Cemetery-Higginsville

    Missouri State Veterans Cemetery-Higginsville is located in Higginsville, Missouri. Find a Grave