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FATHER
John Robertson Jefferson
MOTHER
Sarah Smith Criddle
WIFE
CHILDREN
1. Sarah Matilda Jefferson b. 03 May 1843
Married: Haywood Braham
2. Eugenia Burges Jefferson b. 05 Sep 1844
Married: 1st A. Dudley Jeffries
2nd Frank B. Sanders
3. John Robertson Jefferson b. 20 Apr 1846
4. Jennie Jefferson b. Abt 1850
Married: Frank Saunders
5. Fenner Jefferson b. Abt 1853
d. Aft. 1888
6. Peter Field Jefferson b. 10 July 1856
d. 10 Jul 1857
7. Bettie Howard Jefferson b. 03 Mar 1857
8. Mary Lou Jefferson b. 01 Jan 1858
From "An Authentic History of Guadalupe County by Willie Mae
Weinert, 1951"
"Perhaps John R. Jefferson was the greatest single operator of stage
coach lines in the United States in the early days. He lost a fortune and gained
a desire to come to Texas and recoup his financial losses by establishing new
stage coach lines. He arrived in Seguin in the early fifties with his family and
using Seguin as a 'hometown base' he successfully operated several such stage
coach lines in Texas, according to John Henry Brown in his Encyclopedia of the
New West.
To quote from that history, 'For a period of twenty-five years John R. Jefferson
employed about one thousand head of horses on various stage lines in Missouri,
Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama. From 1854 to 1858 he operated several stage
coach lines in Texas.
During his residence in Mississippi he was a Brigadier General in the United
State Army from 1824 to 1846. He was married in Hinds Co., MS June 4, 1841 to
Miss Eliza A. Coorpender who was born in North Carolina in 1826.
The first home built by General Jefferson was a log house facing Jefferson
Avenue School across Erkel Street on the west. This log house was torn down
about 1909, but Jefferson Ave. and the Jefferson Avenue School still remain as
monuments."
From the Handbook of Texas ONLINE "John R. Jefferson from 1842 to 1846 was brigadier general of Mississippi militia. Jefferson moved to Seguin, Texas, in 1853. He was owner of a tavern and operated several stage lines until 1858. On April 22, 1862, he was appointed Confederate marshal of the Western District of Texas. His amnesty was granted on May 5, 1866. He died shortly afterward in Seguin."
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