Source:
Photo courtesy of Gary Crandall
Reeves Family Photo from 1916
Gibson
Aaron & Mary A. Reeves Gravestone
This is the gravestone of Aaron & Mary A. Reeves in the Sandyville Cemetery, Sandyville, IA.
Source:
http://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=182908
Note:
Permission to re-post given by imagegpa
William Thomas Haney and Sarah Gibson
Early Settlers West of Broken Bow
Source:
S.D. Butcher’s Pioneer History of Custer County
Published 1901
Pages 323-324
Note:
The photos in the story are labeled incorrectly as “E. Jeffords & Mrs. E. Jeffords” when it should be C.H. Jeffords.
Legislator Carl Jeffords
CARL P. JEFFORDS Thirty-ninth District. Member of the Legislature in 1943 and of the special session in 1944. Born at Broken Bow, November 12, 1888. Ancestry Dutch, Irish, Scotch, Welsh and English. Married Myrtle Gard, May 4, 1918; two children. Attended Broken Bow public schools and the University of Nebraska. Has been a school teacher. Is a stockman and farmer. Has served on the school board and as justice of the peace. Is a member of the American Legion. Address: Mullen.
Source:
Nebraska Blue Book, 1944
Page 208
CARL P. JEFFORDS. Thirty-ninth District. Member of the Legislature in 1943, 1945 and of the special sessions in 1944 and 1946. Born in Broken Bow, November 12, 1886. Ancestry Dutch, Irish, Scotch, Welsh and English. Married Myrtle Gard, May 4, 1918; two children. Attended Broken Bow public schools and the University of Nebraska. Has been a school teacher. Is a stockman and farmer Has served on the school board and as justice of the peace. Is a member of the American Legion. Address: Mullen.
Source:
Nebraska Blue Book, 1946
Page 207
Note:
The 1944 entry incorrectly shows Carl’s birth date as November 12, 1888, and is later corrected in the 1946 entry showing November 12, 1886.
Note:
Carl’s older sister, Clara (Jeffords) Humphrey, was also a Nebraska Legislator from 1925-1927.
