Worth County GaArchives Biographies.....Thomas Jefford September 22 1869 - 1960
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Author: History of Worth County Georgia - Volume II
Dr. T.C. {Thomas Cornelius} Jefford, fifth president of the Sylvester Banking 
Company, was born September 22, 1869, in Ware County, Georgia.  He attended the 
public schools in Waresboro and later graduated from the Atlanta College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, in medicine, and from the Atlanta Dental College in 
the class of 1894.  He located in Sylvester and practiced both professions for 
a number of years and then gave up his professional career for business, in 
which he was very successful.
Dr. Jefford served successively between 1901 until his death in 1960, as a 
Director, Vice-President, President and Chairman of the Board of the Sylvester 
Banking Company, but in his later years he was inactive on account of ill 
health.
He became a man of substantial wealth, had great administrative ability, and 
gave his influence and cooperation in the furtherance of enterprises that have 
been of great value to Sylvester and Worth County.  His liberality and 
progressiveness made him one of the prominent and influential citizens in Worth 
County and in the State of Georgia.  He served on the building committee of the 
Worth County Courthouse and of McPhaul Institute to which he was one of the 
largest contributors.  He gave the land for Worth County High School, including 
the football field and other sports areas.  He also gave the land for the Worth 
County Hospital.  He promoted conservation and reforestation on Worth's cut-
over lands.  He gave a tract of land for use of the FFA organization, which is 
still in use.
He married Mrs. Mary R. Adams McPhaul in 1901, and she also played an important 
role in the progress of civic affairs.  They were world travelers, visiting 
several countries, including the Holy Land.
Dr. Jefford was a Democrat, a fifty year Mason, and served as President of the 
Sylvester Kiwansis Club.  He was also a Methodist and Past Chairman of the 
Board of Pinson Memorial Methodist Church in Sylvester.

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