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Name	James JEFFREY
Born	15 Apr 1835	Cobourg, Ontario [1, 4, 5]
Gender	Male
Buried	Feb 1872	Union Cemetry, Morristown, Belmont County, Ohio, USA [5]
Died	5 Feb 1872	Mecklenberg County, Virginia, USA [1, 5, 6, 7, 8]
Person ID	I17	John Cowan Family Tree
Last Modified	9 Feb 2020

Father	Honourable Andrew JEFFREY b. 17 Feb 1800, Foulden, Scotland d. 27 Jul 1863, Cobourg, Ontario (Age 63 years)
Mother	Janet HALL b. 21 May 1808, Clackmannan, Scotland d. 10 Oct 1851, Cobourg, Ontario (Age 43 years)
Married	18 Feb 1828	Cobourg, Ontario, Canada [1]
Family ID	F4	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Sarah D ROGERS
b. 13 Dec 1836, nr Morristown, Belmont County, Ohio, USA
d. 17 Apr 1918, Belmont Co, Ohio, USA (Age 81 years)

Married 13 Dec 1859 Belmont, Ohio, United States [9]

Notes

MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Belmont Co, Ohio, USA.
[10]

Children

	1. Andrew Arthur JEFFREY b. 10 Feb 1861, Belmont County, Ohio, USA d. 16 Jan 1939, Chanute, Kansas, USA (Age 77 years)
	2. James Hamilton JEFFREY b. 28 Sep 1863, Belmont County, Ohio, USA d. 27 Feb 1956, Salem, Warren, Ohio, United States (Age 92 years)
	3. John JEFFREY b. 30 Jan 1866, Union Township Ohio d. 18 Aug 1932, Union, Belmont, Ohio, United States (Age 66 years)
	4. Dr Hugh Rogers JEFFREY b. 16 Oct 1867, Barnesville, Belmont, Ohio, United States d. 10 Jun 1941, Morristown, Belmont County, Ohio, USA (Age 73 years)
	5. Mary Isabella JEFFREY b. 21 Mar 1869, Barnesville, Belmont, Ohio, United States d. 6 Jul 1950, St. Clairsville, Belmont, Ohio, United States (Age 81 years)
	6. Martha Lillian JEFFREY b. 26 Feb 1871, Belmont Co, Ohio, USA d. 25 Feb 1955, Bethesda, Belmont County, Ohio, USA (Age 83 years)

Last Modified 8 Aug 2020

Family ID F361 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

The "Casey Notes" (Library/James Jeffrey 1835/Item 1, pages 33/4)report the following, paraphrased here:
'James met Sarah when visiting a property owned by his father in (March?) 1859. He had come to "settle an estate on a nearby property." That property was near Sarah's parents home on the Bethesda-Morristown Road, Ohio, called Emerald Hills Farm (see picture in Library/James Jeffrey 1835/6-Sarah Rogers' House.)

James' first visit was only brief but he was so struck by her that he proposed marriage in a letter upon his return home (various letters in the possession of Virginia Kinney). A subsequent visit in July fostered the acquaintance such that they were married in December, 1859.

Initially they lived in Canada for a few years. Sarah visited her parents when Andrew Arthur was an infant (1861?) Sarah's parents visited James and Sarah in Canada in the winter of 1863-4 (US Civil War era). Sarah's brother Hugh Rogers also visited in 1862 or 1864 after service in the Union Army and the death of his brother (Aug 1862) from typhoid while briefly serving in the same army.

In 1864/5 James and Sarah moved to Barnesville Ohio (near Morristown and Bethesda, OH). There James opened the first hardware store (later owned by his Brothers-in-law Thomas and Arthur Rogers).

Then they moved to Mecklenburg County, Virginia where James owned property. James died in a year or two (age 37) when he inhaled poison ivey fumes while burning brush. Sarah brought her children back to Ohio and had a farm near her old home. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church there.'

DEATH: Also shown as Died Morristown, Belmont, Ohio, United States.

Sources

[S3] John Jeffrey Bible, Mary Sutherland, Library/John Jeffrey/2-John Jeffrey Bible. (Reliability: 2).
[S105] Find A Grave Index, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132347220 (Reliability: 3), 4 Aug 2019.
James Jeffrey
[S100] Jane Jeffrey KIngan Death Notice (Reliability: 2).
[S104] 1870 United States Federal Census, Year: 1870; Census Place: Barnesville, Belmont, Ohio; Roll: M593_1174; Page: 404A; Image: 288544; Family History Library Film: 552673, 4 Aug 2018.
NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
Minnesota census schedules for 1870. NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.

[S105] Find A Grave Index.
[S26] Janet(Jessie) Jeffrey's Visitor Book, Library/Janet Jeffrey/4-AuntJessCalendarBook., Page 9 (Reliability: 3), 24 Nov 2017.
[S57] William Campbell, William Campbell, Jeffrey Page 19, 28 Aug 2018.
Lived in USA and died in Virginia
[S99] Casey Notes, Nancy A Casey, (Not Published), Library/James Jeffrey 1835/1-Casey Notes., P34, 1 Mar 2019.
[S99] Casey Notes, Nancy A Casey, (Not Published), Library/James Jeffrey 1835/1-Casey Notes., P33, 1 Mar 2019.
[S100] Jane Jeffrey KIngan Death Notice.

James JEFFREY[1, 2, 3]

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