When Perry L. Jeffers was born on 12 August 1816, in Windsor, Broome, New York, United States, his father, Stephen Jeffers Jr, was 26 and his mother, Cynthia Coburn, was 19. He married Julia Ann Woodruff in 1837, in Ogle, Illinois, United States. He died on 31 August 1854, in Whiteside, Illinois, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Fenton, Whiteside, Illinois, United States.
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English: variant of Jeffries . This form of the surname is strongly associated with Ireland.
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Possible Related NamesPerry L. JEFFERS came to Lyndon in 1836, and worked for C.G. Woodruff that season. He afterwards made a claim southwest of W.O.Dudley's, and sold it to John M. Scott, and then settled in Delhi, where …
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