Muscogee-Jasper County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jeffries, William Robert (W. R.) December 3 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Brown annebrown44@hotmail.com October 30, 2004, 8:42 am Columbus Enquire Sun - 5 Dec. 1899 Mr. W. B. JEFFRIES Dead. (This should read W. R. Jeffries) The obit stated: Mr. W. B. (sic) JEFFRIES, fifty-one years of age, died at his home on Northwest street at 11 o'clock Sunday evening, after a long illness of eight months of Typhoid fever. He is survived by his wife and five children, Messrs. Swep, Arthur, and John, and Misses Laura and Willie JEFFRIES, all of this city. The funeral was conducted by the Rev. J. W. SIMMONS, and took place from the house at 2 o'clock yesterday. The interment being at Clapp's Factory. Additional Comments: W. R. JEFFRIES, is William Robert JEFFRIES, son of Bolin S. JEFFRIES and Rebecca TUGGLE. He was married first, Margaret KENNINGTON. They had one son, John Swept JEFFRIES. He married second, Ella MC CRACKEN. W. R. was born, 1848, in Jasper County, GA. His death date of, 3 Dec. 1899, is listed in the Jeffries Family Bible. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/muscogee/obits/j/gob1936jeffries.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb