After more than 30 years in the grocery and produce business in Monett, Leroy Jeffries lived in Cassville and served as Barry County Clerk from 1915-1922.  When he returned to Monett in 1923, at 61 years of age, he went into a completely new business and built a gas station and garage on the northwest corner of Central Avenue and Main Street, the location of his third grocery store.  He became a Sinclair dealer on May 1, 1924.  When highway 37 was built in 1929, he built a new station on the highway at the north end of the Frisco (now Burlington Northern) railroad overpass, about 1/4 mile north of the junction of highways 60 and 37.  It opened July 3, 1929, and remained a service station into the mid-1960s.  The last member of the Jeffries family to run the station retired about 1963.

Leroy Jeffries' 1st Gas Station, Corner Central & Main, Looking North Up Central, 1923-1929. Mounted Photo.	Leroy Jeffries at Pumps of His 1st Station. Mounted Photo.
Jeffries 2nd Gas Station, Hwy. 37, North End Railroad Overpass, 1929-1960s. Snapshot Ca. 1929.	Jeffries 2nd Station. Snapshot Ca. 1930s.
Leroy & Mary Jeffries, 2nd Station. Snapshot Ca. 1930s.	Jeffries 2nd Station. Snapshot Ca. 1930s.
Leroy Jeffries & John Mayes, 2nd Station with New Gas Pumps. Snapshot Ca. 1940-42.	John & Katherine Mayes, Yard Jeffries Home, 2nd Station in Background Across Hwy. 37. Snapshot Ca. 1943.
Tire Air Pump, 2nd Jeffries Station. Snapshot 1937.	Jeffries 2nd Station Snapshot Ca. 1950.

The Jeffries Collection of Monett Photographs & Documents.

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