Izard Co., AR - Biographies - P. M. Jeffery

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P. M. Jeffery was born in Izard County, Ark., June 14, 1837, and is a son of
Daniel Jeffery, who was born, reared and educated in the State of Tennessee,
moving to Arkansas in the year 1816, and took up his abode in Izard County,
where he was married to Miss Mary Bowcock, a native Virginian, their union
taking place in 1824. The result of their marriage was the birth of eleven
children, seven sons and four daughters, only one of whom is now living, P. M.
Jeffery, our subject. The father was an active politician, and besides holding
the offices of sheriff and county judge, one term each, he was elected to
represent this county in the State legislature in 1846, and discharged the
duties of this position with honor to himself and to the satisfaction of his
constituents. He was also justice of the peace of his township one term. He and
wife were active workers in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at the time of
their respective deaths in September, 1862, and February 22, 1863, and left a
fine property to be divided among their children, consisting of 320 acres of
fertile land. P. M. Jeffery, the immediate subject of this sketch, has spent his
life in his native county, and received his education in the schools near
Melbourne. From earliest youth he has been familiar with farm work, and of his
200 acres of land, fifty are under cultivation. In connection with this he is
engaged in preaching the gospel, being a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, his wife and all his children being also members of that church. In
September, 1861, he enlisted under W. J. Hardy, for a war experience, his
firsthand fight being at Shiloh, he being wounded in the head in this engagement
by a fragment of shall. He received his discharge at Jacksonport. On the 30th of
April, 1865, he wedded Miss Dorinda Arnold, a daughter of James and Annie
Arnold, and to them have been born seven children, six sons and one daughter:
James E., Albert S., Willie M., Philip A., Daniel P., Henry K. and Annie M.