Jeffords, Elza
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 23, 1826, in Ironton, Ohio. He settled in Mississippi in 1864; and was judge of the high court of errors and appeals of the state in 1868 and 1869. He was elected a representative from Mississippi to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.
JEFFREY, MRS. ROSA VERTNER (GRIFFITH) (JOHNSON), author, poet, was born in 1828 in Natchez, Miss. She was a verse-writer of Lexington, Ky., and the author of Poems by Rosa; Florence Vale; The Crimson Hand, and Other Poems; Marah, a novel; and Woodburn, a novel. She died in 1894.