Jeffrey is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
located near Peter/s Creek on Bethlehem Church Road, approximately 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.
[Rennick, Robert M., "Monroe County - Place Names" (2016). Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection. 111. (“Jeffrey, Kentucky”) https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/rennick_ms_collection/111] 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). Jeffrey's post office was discontinued March 31, 1937. Payton Jeffrey/s also operated a
grist mill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...
located across from his store on Peter/s Creek, succeeded as miller by his son-in-law, George Simmons.
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.
[Tim Turner, Interview by Charles R. Arterburn, Jeffrey, Kentucky, August 18, 2022.]
Jeffrey's general stores and Mud Slash School and mills are gone. Fairview/Mud Slash Baptist Church (est. 1890) remains an active local congregation.
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Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Kentucky
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