CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO - BIO: SAMUEL W. JEFFREY (1881)

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.869 [J surnames]
CHICAGO
BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS
186 DEARBORN STREET
1881

AUBURN TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO

SAMUEL W. JEFFREY, painter. P.O. Tire: is the son of Thomas and Lydia Ann (Chittenden) Jeffrey, who were
parents of a family of nine children, seven of whom are yet living. Samuel W. passed his youth on a farm. He was
united in marriage with Amanda C. Aumend. daughter of David and Clarissa (Ashley) Aumend, and by her has one
child-Willard F., born Dec. 30, 1767. Mr. Aumend. the father of Mrs. Jeffrey, was born in Pennsylvania May 9,
1810. He was a son of Adam and Christina (Allbright) Aumend, who came to Auburn Township in 1819, it then
being unexplored wilderness. Here Mr. Aumend was reared. On the 16th of August, 1833, he was married to
Clarrissa Ashley, and by her had the following family: Willard H., Lucretia, Laura J., Francis M., and Amanda.
The latter married Mr. S. W. Jefrey, as stated above. Mr. Jeffrey is a Republican in politics and a member of the
Church of God. He well and faithfully served his country in the late war between the North and the South.. He.
enlisted in Co. C, 23d O. V. I., and served until the close of the war, when he was discharged July 26, 1865. He was
first under the command of Col. Rosecrans, but afterward was under Col. (now President) Hayes. Mr. Jeffrey was
in quite a number of engagements; was severly wounded in the neck October, l864, in Shenandoah Valley, Va. He
is a young man of considerable enterprise and push, and is an intelligent citizen.