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From: Bill Utterback <>
Subject: [KYJP] Jackson Purchase Vignettes - McCracken Co - Dr. Walter B. Jefferson
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:51:58 -0600

My friends -

Due to the large response from yesterday's posting from Calloway County, I
find that I will be several hours more in responding to the requests that I
have received. In order to avoid getting overwhelmed with an additional
data post today, I am, instead, going to send along another in the JP
Vignettes series. Our subject is Dr. Walter B. Jefferson of McCracken
County, who according to this bio, was a close relative to Thomas
Jefferson, through the President's brother, Randolph.

We will resume with a data post from Graves County tomorrow.

-B
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Jackson Purchase Vignettes - McCracken County - Dr. Walter B. Jefferson

"Dr. Walter B. Jefferson is a son of Isham R. and Sarah A. (Mansfield)
Jefferson, who came separately to Todd County in 1833, from Abermarle [sic]
County, Va. The father was a native of that county, and was there reared by
his uncle, Thomas Jefferson, the famous author of the Declaration of
Independence, and third Chief Executive of the United States, Isham's
father, Randolph Jefferson, being the youngest brother of the President.
The father of our subject married first a Miss Henderson, and afterward a
Miss Peyton. He located, on coming to Todd County, upon a farm in Jesup's
Grove, removing afterward to within a mile south of Elkton, where he died
in 1862. His third marriage occurred in this county. He wedded Miss
Mansfield, and the union was blessed with the following children: William
A., James M. Walter B., Susan M. (deceased), Nannie, wife of F. M. Byars,
and Wirt, who died in 1875, in early manhood. Dr. W. B., the subject of
these lines, obtained his early schooling in Elkton, and began the study of
medicine under Drs. James A. and John O. McReynolds. He attended the
University of Virginia, and afterward the University of Nashville,
graduating from the latter institution in 1862, since which date he has
practiced his profession in Todd and Logan Counties and in Paducah, Ky. He
married, in 1863, Miss Mamie, daughter of Judge Ben. T. Perkins. She died
in 1877, leaving one child, Anna M. His second marriage was with Mrs.
Evelyn A. Taylor, a daughter of Edwin Johnson, of Montgomery County, Tenn.
Dr. Jefferson is a man of ability, and of high standing with the community.
His sunny nature and high social worth attract to him a large circle of
acquaintances. He was elected to the Legislature of 1883, and is now
serving in that body, and was elected a delegate to represent the Third
District in the Democratic National Convention held at Chicago."

-Memorial
Record of Western Kentucky
Louisville:
Lewis Publishing Co., 1904
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