Jefferies

Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson, Mississippi

Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson, Mississippi

This survey of Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson, Mississippi, was completed in 1956 by Mr. Gordon M. Wells and published by Joyce Bridges the same year. It contains the cemetery readings Mr. Wells was able to obtain at that date. It is highly likely that not all of the gravestones had survived up to that point, and it is even more likely that a large portion of interred individuals never had a gravestone.

Biographical Sketch of Thomas John Jefferies

Thomas John Jefferies was born on November 9, 1841, in Somersetshire, England. At the age of eight, he left home to pursue a new life in the United States, arriving in New York City in 1849. He was taken in by a farmer, Reuben Reynolds, and lived with him until 1870. Jefferies studied at Knox College and later pursued a career as a station agent for the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad. He married Helen Orr in 1877 and was active in local organizations and government.