| ||||||||||
 
Dr. Ronald P. Rogers CHIROPRACTOR Support for your body's natural healing capabilities 270-384-5554 Click here for details 
  
Columbia Gas Dept. GAS LEAK or GAS SMELL Contact Numbers 24 hrs/ 365 days 270-384-2006 or 9-1-1 Call before you dig 
Visit ColumbiaMagazine's Directory of Churches Addresses, times, phone numbers and more for churches in Adair County Find Great Stuff in ColumbiaMagazine's Classified Ads Antiques, Help Wanted, Autos, Real Estate, Legal Notices, More... 
|
Mike Watson, History: A Remarkable Family, X 2 Adair County, KY, historian Mike Watson uncovered this remarkable 8 November 1871 story about birthday coincidences which may never be topped around here again By Mike Watson A Family Remarkable for Twins Near Jamestown, Russell County, Ky., there lives one of the mostremarkable of families. Mr. James Jeffries, lately attending theUnited States Court in Louisville, as a juror, tells the story. Hesays that he was married before he was seventeen years old, his wifebeing only five days younger than himself. They lived together sevenyears without children, when his wife gave birth to twins, a boy and agirl. In the fifteen years which followed, nineteen children were bornto the happy couple, each of the first three births being twins, andeach subsequent birth alternating between twins and single birthsuntil fifteen years accomplished and nineteen births composed thefamily circle, seven pairs of twins being born during this time. Mr. Jeffries is only forty-five years old and is still youthful inappearance and very stout. His wife never had better health in all herlife than at present, though she will not weigh 100 pounds. Hergreatest weight at any time was 110 pounds. The boy of the first twins now weighs 165 pounds, the girl 125 pounds.All the boys who are grown have made large men; the girls are of goodsize and the children healthy, but five of the nineteen have died. Mr. Jeffries has ten brothers, all of whom are large men, and withinthe families of the eleven brothers there are thirty-seven pairs oftwins, making seventy-four twin children; to say nothing of the hostof single births. Five of Mr. Jeffries' children are married, and,added to all those singular facts, notwithstanding the absence ofsilver locks on his head, he is the grandfather of five children. Juniata Sentinel, Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, 8 November 1871, page 1.This story was copied from a Louisville paper; good filler across thenation for a slow news day. Remarkable, but true. -MW ***** A Remarkable FamilyThe following is from the Danville Advocate: Mr. Samuel Jeffries, whodied in Casey County some time since, left a family consisting of awife and eight grown children and eighty-seven grandchildren. Mr.Jeffries had a rather interesting and remarkable family record. Hewas married in Russell County many years ago, but for six years andsix months after his marriage no child was born to him. During thesucceeding fifteen years, however, he became the father of nineteenchildren. Eleven of them were girls. There are seven sets of twinsthat arrived consecutively, and then five singles. Two of the girlsmarried and each of them became twice mothers of twins. from reprint in Adair County News, 3 May 1905, page 5. - Mike Watson This story was posted on 2012-04-05 07:04:11
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know. More articles from topic Mike Watson - History:
Mike Watson: One scene fits all places - way to hawk postcards Mike Watson: Oh, for Names, Places and Pronunciation! Mike Watson first to pledge to Camp Boyle marker Mike Watson places era of old Courthouse photo in mid-1930s Mike Watson: Not a drop of rain election Day Mike Watson writes of 3rd Adair 'Medal of Honor' winner Mike Watson commends Lilburn Roy book on Dr. Pepper Mike Watson sends detailed caption for photo 1938 MR School MIKE WATSON: Adair County post office list Mike Watson: How long since flag flew atop Adair Co. Courthouse? View even more articles in topic Mike Watson - History |
 
115 Jamestown St. Columbia, KY. 270-384-2496 
  
   
 Provided by the Adair Co Fiscal Court and the Adair Co. Emergency Mgt. Agency 
|
||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
Quick Links to Popular Features
Looking for a story or picture? Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com. | ||||||||||
|
Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728. Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.
| ||||||||||
