Jeffrey, Kentucky
Unincorporated community
Jeffrey is located in Kentucky
Jeffrey
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is located in the United States
Jeffrey
Jeffrey
Coordinates: 36°45′04″N 85°50′26″W / 36.75111°N 85.84056°W / 36.75111; -85.84056
CountryUnited States
StateKentucky
CountyMonroe
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes
42157
GNIS feature ID4296220[1]

Jeffrey is an unincorporated community located near Peter/s Creek on Bethlehem Church Road, approximately eight miles (13 km) northwest of Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky, United States.

History

A post office was first established here, March 10, 1903, in the home of postmaster and namesake, Payton J. Jeffrey/s (1865–1926), and his wife, Ella (Arterburn) Jeffrey/s, which was later moved to their general store.[2] Their daughter, Nola (Jeffrey/s) Simmons, was the last postmaster and one of the schoolteachers at the local rural school known as "Mud Slash" (1911–1967).[3] Jeffrey's post office was discontinued March 31, 1937. Payton Jeffrey/s also operated a water-powered grist mill located across from his store on Peter/s Creek, succeeded by his son-in-law, George Simmons.[4][5]

Argil Black, Joe Bowman, William Joseph Burks, Finley Quinn, Leslie Samson, John Bedford Smith, and J. T. Turner were also merchants in this community. William T. Whitehead briefly operated a steam-powered sawmill on Kate Miller Branch of Peter/s Creek nearby. The Ulysses Quinn Family later operated another grist mill on Peter/s Creek located at the intersection of Stringtown-Flippin Road and Bethlehem Church Road nearby.[2][6]

Jeffrey's general stores and Mud Slash School and mills are gone. Fairview/Mud Slash Baptist Church (est. 1890) remains an active local congregation.

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Jeffrey, Kentucky
  2. 1 2 Rennick, Robert M., "Monroe County - Place Names" (2016). Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection. 111. (“Jeffrey, Kentucky”) https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/rennick_ms_collection/111
  3. ↑ Monroe County Retired Teachers. Early School Days in Monroe County, Kentucky. Utica, KY: McDowell Publications, 2008.
  4. ↑ Rennick, Robert M. Kentucky Place Names. The University Press of Kentucky, 1984. p. 153.
  5. ↑ Birdwell, Dayton. The History of Monroe County, Kentucky, 1820–1988. Tompkinsville, Ky: Monroe County Press, 1992.
  6. ↑ Tim Turner, Interview by Charles R. Arterburn, Jeffrey, Kentucky, August 18, 2022.


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