Cornelius H. Laforce was born around 1811 in Kentucky. He married Isabella King in Scott County, Indiana, on October 16, 1831, and they had at least eleven children: Nancy, born around 1833; Mary, born around 1835; Julian, born around 1837; Daniel, born around 1839; Lewis, born around 1842; Paul, born around 1844; Elizabeth, born around 1847; Isabell, born around 1849; Phoebe, born around 1852; Harriet, born around 1853; and Cornelius, born around 1855. The family lived in Trimble County, Kentucky, until the 1840s, when they moved to Pendleton County, Kentucky. Laforce worked as a farmer, and by 1850, he owned $300 of real estate. They moved to Pine, Indiana, in the 1850s, and by 1860, he owned $400 of personal property. He died around 1865.