Henry Josiah JeffordsAge: 66 years1867–1934
- Name
- Henry Josiah Jeffords
- Given names
- Henry Josiah
- Surname
- Jeffords
 Birth | November 21, 1867 |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 13 months)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 10 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | Sarah Melissa Rushin — View this family December 24, 1891 (Age 24 years) |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Mina Jeffords May 23, 1892 (Age 24 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 30 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | Emma Lena Jeffords September 18, 1901 (Age 33 years) |
| Death of a wife | Sarah Melissa Rushin after September 18, 1901 (Age 33 years) |
| Marriage of a child | George Archibald Cox Sr. — Mina Jeffords — View this family December 13, 1913 (Age 46 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | Manford Henry Cox November 12, 1914 (Age 46 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 48 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | Vivian Lorene Cox January 11, 1917 (Age 49 years) |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 49 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 50 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Birth of a granddaughter #3 | Alice Lucille Cox August 11, 1920 (Age 52 years) |
| Death of a daughter | Mina Jeffords January 21, 1923 (Age 55 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #4 | Mary Geraldine Cox July 31, 1925 (Age 57 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #5 | George Archibald Cox Jr December 22, 1926 (Age 59 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #6 | John Lee “Johnny” Cox December 13, 1927 (Age 60 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #7 | Vennie Lou Cox April 18, 1929 (Age 61 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 61 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Birth of a granddaughter #8 | Dorcus Laverne Cox December 19, 1930 (Age 63 years) |
 Death | March 29, 1934 (Age 66 years) |
| Family with Sarah Melissa Rushin |
| himself |
Henry Josiah Jeffords Birth: November 21, 1867 — Pope, Illinois, United States Death: March 29, 1934 — Harviell, Butler, Missouri, United States |
| wife |
Sarah Melissa Rushin Birth: September 15, 1870 44 41 — Butler, Missouri, United States Death: after September 18, 1901 — Harviell, Butler, Missouri, United States |
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Marriage: December 24, 1891 — Beaver Dam, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States |
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5 months daughter |
Mina Jeffords Birth: May 23, 1892 24 21 — Harviell, Butler, Missouri, United States Death: January 21, 1923 — Charleston, Mississippi, Missouri, United States |
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9 years daughter |
Emma Lena Jeffords Birth: September 18, 1901 33 31 — Smithland, Livingston, Kentucky, United States Death: September 4, 1966 — Salem, Marion, Illinois, United States |