Tony SCHAEFFER
Tony SCHAEFER was the last farmer in the Lacona
area to work horses. He sold his farm and moved to Lacona in October
1974. He had worked and farmed with horses his entire life.
The house he moved into was the site of the the first cement sidewalk
poured in Lacona in 1897. (Source - Chronology of the early settlers of White Breast Township and Lacona compiled by Edith HEEMSTRA and John FORD sometime around 1980.)