A copper kettle was brought from Claton, Ill., in a prairie schooner by Bert Lafferty’s grandparents in 1870. Bert’s father, Clifford, followed with family in 1880 and took a homestead north of Marion, Nebr., in Red Willow County. He built the first frame house south of Indianola, Nebr. It was destroyed by the historic tornado of May 9, 1881, which took the lives of his wife and daughter. Lena (Sanders) Lafferty and her parents also had their home taken from over them in the tornado of 1906.