Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Jeffery, Lewis February 23, 1828 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

New Garden Township
p. 657

Lewis Jeffery, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in New Garden Township, Wayne 
Co., Ind., Feb. 24, 1828, a son of Joel and Hannah (Case) Jeffery. His early 
education was obtained in log school-house on section 26. He remained with his 
parents till manhood. He was married Jan. 4, 1849, to Cecily J., daughter of 
Thornton and Nancy Freeman, natives of South Carolina, who came to Wayne 
County, Ind., about 1829, and settled in Green Township, afterward removing to 
New Garden Township, where the father died and the mother still lives. After 
his marriage, Mr. Jeffery settled on the old homestead, remaining there nine 
years. He then bought the farm where he now lives, consisting of 120 acres of 
well-improved land. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery have had six children; three are 
living---Perry L., Cornelia A., and Medora C. The three eldest, Margaret E., 
Mary E., and William L., are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery have been members 
of the Methodist Episcopal church forty-two years. Mr. Jeffery's father was 
born in New Jersey about the year 1788. He served in a New Jersey regiment in 
the war of 1812, and soon after the war came to Indiana and purchased 210 
acres of land in New Garden Township. He returned to New Jersey in 1820 and 
his father and family came with him to Indiana. He was married in 1819 to 
Hannah Case, daughter of Isaiah and Francis Case. Of their thirteen children, 
eleven grew to maturity, and seven are still living. Joel Jeffery died in 1860 
and his wife in 1868. Isaiah Case came to Indiana in 1814, living here the 
remainder of his life.


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