Jeffryes, R. S.

JEFFRYES

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/18/2008 at 16:14:42

R. S. Jeffryes, farmer, P. O. Carson, was born in Mercer county, Ill., August 30, 1857; his father, T. W. Jeffryes, was born in 1818, in London, England, and came to America about 1841, living in different parts of Illinois till 1868, when he came to Pottawattamie County, where he still lives. Subject's mother, E. J. (Hamilton) Jeffryes, was born in Indiana, December 27, 1830, and is living iand is the mother of five children - William T., Robert E., R. S., F. I. and F. H. Mr. Jeffryes attended the common schools and then, for three terms, attended the Malvern Normal School, where he intends to graduate. He began life as a farmer in Pottawattamie County, and he now owns 320 acres in Woodbury County, which he is rapidly improving. Mr. Jeffryes' parents settled on the farm of 160 acres on which they now live in 1868; it was at that time entirely unimproved, but is now in a good state of improvement. Mr. Jeffryes is a Democrat. (From the 1882 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa)