Family:Joel Jeffers and Electa Martin (1)

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d. 18 Sep 1864 Petersburg, Va
 
Electa Martin (add)
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Marriage? Unknown
Children
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The father, Joel was born in the Sand Lake, New York area an area in the northern part of the state where the fishing is good and the hunting is excellent. The mother Electa was born in Western Mass an area of mountains, woods, rivers and lakes near the foot of Mount Greylock the highest point in Mass.

The Joel and Electa Jeffers family lived in Clarksburg, Mass. They had 7 children; David Franklin Jeffers, Lewis R Jeffers, William A Jeffers, Robert E Jeffers, Eldridge L Jeffers, Altheir L Jeffers, and Orritta A Jeffers.

In this family it is known that 3 children died within a month of each other to Scarlet Fever, a mother died 3 months after her son of Tuberculosis, and their father was killed in the Civil War.

Several of the children had children of their own and went on to lead happy and full lives.

Somewhere out there the Jeffers line continues.