_David PARSON Jr._________+
| (1834 - 1909) m 1862
_Westly Holmes PARSON _|
| (1885 - 1926) m 1907 |
| |_Elmira M. SHOOP _________+
| (1845 - 1936) m 1862
|
|--Name Withheld
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| _Eli Franklin VAUGHN _____+
| | (1858 - 1929) m 1882
|_Zora Belle VAWN ______|
m 1907 |
|_Martha Bell SILVERTHORN _+
(1860 - 1929) m 1882
_Dewey HALDEMAN ______+
|
_Living HALDEMAN ____|
| |
| |_Mary Olive HARSHMAN _
|
|
|--Living HALDEMAN
|
| ______________________
| |
|_Living RUTH ________|
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|______________________
_Richard JEFFRIS ____+
| (1730 - 1817)
_Mark JEFFRIES ______|
| (1787 - 1877) m 1811|
| |_Nancy DAVIS ________
| (1765 - 1841)
|
|--Cyrus JEFFRIES
| (1812 - 1877)
| _John PARSONS _______+
| | (1755 - 1822)
|_Rebeca PARSONS _____|
(1783 - 1863) m 1811|
|_Elizabeth SIMCOX ___
(1757 - 1803)
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!Occupation: Founder Church of Christ
!Burial: I.O.O.F. Cemetery
!Obituary:Believing that our readers would appreciate a sketch concerning the like of
Rev. Cyrus JEFFRIES, the author of the excellent story now running in the
columns of the Times, we have prepared the following brief biography. We
have received our information from Mr. Jeffries's son, H. O. Jeffries of
Panasoffkee, Florida, and his daughter, Mrs. Belle MCCOY of Kent,
Washington. Additional data has been obtained from S. E. PARSONS, Mrs C. E.
CULVER and Mrs. Geo. PARSONS, all residents of Mount Union, and all of whom
are cousins of Rev. Cyrus JEFFRIES.
Rev. Cyrus Jeffries, author of "Jack and Keturah Culberson," was born on
June 6, 1812, in a log house of considerable dimensions, along the banks of
Tuscarora Creek, just below Nossville, in Tell township, Huntingdon Co., Pa.
He was a son of Mark and Rebecca JEFFRIES. In his early life he taught
school and also learned the trade of a millwright under his father's
tutorship. Late he took a course in medicine in Philadelphia, probably at
what is now the University of Pennsylvania. After finishing his course in
medicine, he was ordained a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church and
he never ceased the ministry until his death. His conference, he being then
a resident of Ohio, sent him to Maysville, Ky., where he was assaulted in
the dark by a gang of ruffians and carried out of town, with the admonition
to never return only on the penalty of his life. The cause of his assault
was, that in a church meeting a local preacher, while debating with Mr.
Jeffries on the slavery question, which was then before the church, made
this statement: "Three things will tend to keep slavery alive; it performs
our labor and exempts us from toil; it affords
easy -------------------------------passions make money for us; when I need
money------------------(paragraph unreadable DW)
At Orrville, Ohio, on April 27, 1831, Rev. Cyrus Jeffries and Catharine
KIDLINGER of Milesburg, Center Co., Pa., were united in marriage. The
ceremony was performed by a Presbyterian minister, who kept the couple on
the floor for three hours, solemnly admonishing them to observe the
importance of the step they were taking.
The great-grandfather of Mr. Jeffries settled in Chester county, Pa. He
came to this country from England two years before the arrival of William
Penn. He was of Quaker extraction, as were all his sons, likewise the
subject of this sketch. He and some of his sons owned a large portion of
land on which the Battle of Brandywine was fought. They were devoted
colonists, and in spite of his scruples of religion, Mr. Jeffries
grandfather, Richard Jeffries, enlisted and served in the ranks of
Washington's army.
Mr. Jeffries was one of a family of six sons, the other brothers being
Andrew, Parsons, Mark, Benjamin and Lemuel. There were no girls in this
family. He was twice married, the second time to a lady by the name of
Margaret CLAYTON. At one time Mr. and Mrs. Jeffries resided in Mount Union
and all through this section of Huntingdon county he was well known. Mr.
Jeffries was the father of six children, all to his first wife: Lorenz, who
died in the South Dakota Soldiers' Home; Howard O., Panasoffkee, Florida;
Ferdinand, who was killed at the Battle of Antietam; Jacob A. K. of Chicago,
Ossian A. and Mrs. Belle MCCOY of Kent, Washingotn. Mr. Jeffries was a
great preacher and a brilliant man and we believe a man who was greater
perhaps than the age in which he lived realized. He possessed a remarkable
memory and was a man of high Christian character and Christian ideals. He
died in Williamstown, N.J., on August 12, 1877, having been stricken by
apoplexy in the pulpit. He had just announced his text and had read the
text and he was stricken before he had started his discourse. The text was
a appropriate one for the closing of such a great life as his, taken from
II Timothy, fourth chapter, sixth, seventh and eighth verses, which are as
follows: "For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is
at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept
the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me
only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.: His body rests in
the Odd Fellow's cemetery here at Mount Union, and thus awaits the summons
of the glorious Resurrection Day. (A photo accompanies the article,
DW)
_Mark JEFFRIES ______+
| (1787 - 1877) m 1811
_Benjamin Briggs JEFFERIES _|
| (1824 - ....) m 1848 |
| |_Rebeca PARSONS _____+
| (1783 - 1863) m 1811
|
|--Walker JEFFRIES
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Nancy Jane BLACK __________|
m 1848 |
|_____________________
______________________
|
_Henry (Dutch) SCHALLER _|
| (1915 - 1997) m 1952 |
| |______________________
|
|
|--Living SCHALLER
|
| _George Chester FOX __+
| | (1890 - 1968) m 1915
|_Helen Rose FOX _________|
(1919 - 2005) m 1952 |
|_Emma Laura NITSCHKE _+
(1888 - 1981) m 1915