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From: Linda Muessig <>
Subject: [Fwd: [PENN] Nebraska family with ties to Wisc, Ohio, Pa, NY, NJ,]
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:00:05 -0400

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From: Vicky Drake <>
Subject: [PENN] Nebraska family with ties to Wisc, Ohio, Pa, NY, NJ,
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New Jersy mail list is closed and I'm not a member, if someone
who is a member would like to foreward this, I'd appreciate it.

Thought someone could use this. I have several others that I
have taken from this Book - I will be posting them too in the
next couple of days. Obviously, I took the ones that were family
so this is family and I'd love to share with anyone interested.

I may not be subscribed to this list so please send any comments privately.

Vicky Drake nee Walker


>From Portrait and Biographical Album of Lancaster County, Nebraska,
containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent
and Representative Citizens of the County. Printed by Chapman Brothers,
Chicago. 1888. In the possession of the Nebraska State Historical
Society in Lincoln. Page 241-242

John Jeffery, a worthy and respected citizen of this county,
has been a resident of this State since 1868, at which time he migrated
from Grant County, Wisc., and homesteaded 80 acres of land on section 22,
Waverly Precinct. He still resides on the original purchase, to which
he has since added another eighty acres, and now has all his land well
improved and under a high state of cultivation. It is provided with
acommodious frame buildings, and the modern mechanical appliances which
enable the agriculturist to perform his duties in the shortest possible
time, and with the least outlay of manual labor.
The subject of this notice is a native of the Buckeye State, which
has furnished so much of the best poineer element of Nebraska, and was born
in Wayne County, Dec 6, 1831. He is the son of William and Mary (Furgeson)
Jeffery, the former of whom was born in Belfast, Ireland, and was the son
of John Jeffery, who, with his family, came to the United States in 1826,
and settled in Congress, Wayne Co., Ohio. He secured a tract of timber
land, and engaging in the noble occupation of redeeming from the wilderness
a land which should "blossom as the rose", he was thus occupied until his
decease. His family consisted of seven children -- William, Nancy, Jane,
Eliza, Archibald, John and James.
William Jeffery, the father of our subject, was born Sept. 25,
1806 and accompanying the family to this country, grew to manhood in
Wayne County, Ohio, and was there united in marriage, March 10, 1831,
with Miss Mary Furgeson. Mrs. Jeffery was a native of Pennsylvania, and
departed this life Feb 14, 1839, at the early age of thwenty-six years,
leaving two children: John, our subject, and Jane who became the wife
of Lyman Haskell, and died in York State. William Jeffery chose for his
second wife Sarah Burney, who was born Dec 11, 1801, and they soon afterward
settled in Grant County, Wisc., which became their home until 1872, when
they directed their steps to this State, and settled in Waverly Precinct,
Lancaster County. The father engaged in the cultivation of the soil,
but the sands of life were allmost run, and he passed away Oct. 22, 1875;
Mrs Jeffery still survives. Of the second union of the father of our subject
there were born six children -- Martin, James, Mary A., Melvin, Thomas,
and Rachel.
At the tender age of seven years our subject sustained an irreparable
loss in the death of his loving mother, and when fourteen years of age he
removed with the family to Grant County, Wisc., where he assisted in the
duties of the farm. Before his arrival in Grant County he had attended
the public schools of his native township , and received an elementary
education. On the 13th of Januar, 1861 he contracted a marimonial alliane
with Miss Lorena Hall, a native of Trumbull County, Ohio, born Oct. 23,
1837, and the daughter of Jacob and Elect (Waldrof) Hall, natives respectively
of New Jersy and Ohio. In 1845 the parents settled in Grant County, Ohio,
and removed from Ohio to Wisconsin, where the devoted wife died five years
later, Dec 31, 1850. The father subsequently came to Nebraska with our s
ubject, and died at his residence, Dec 4, 1878. They became the parents
of seven children -- Lorena, Nelson, Albert, Dudley, Warren, Elizabeth,
and Jacob.
After marriage our subject pursued farming in Grant County, Wis.,
which he continued to make his home until 1868, when he came to Nebrasa
as above stated. Of his union with Miss Lorena Hall there were born
fourteen children: Ira D., deceased; Volney W., Dudley M.; Walter A.,
Mary Electa and William, all deceased; Sarah J.; John, deceased; Ninnie
L.;
Nelson, deceased; George, Charles, Maggie, and Ida. In politics the
sympathies of our subject are with the Democratic Party, but he yeilds to
no slavish obedience, and holds himself free to support what he considers
the best measures, regardless of the party by whom they are introduced.

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