HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III, pp. 1187-88. [Franklin County] JOHN WALTER JEFFERS--ALthough of the younger generation of Frankfort, John Walter Jeffers is a man who has already made his mark and has been honored with several high offices, both in a civic and fraternal relation, and to enumerate he is master commissioner, former chief deputy sheriff and past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, and organization in which he is widely known. The ancestry of Mr. Jeffers is in many ways of peculiar interest and well repays a passing survey. His grandfather, Elias Jeffers, was born in Scott county, Kentucky, February 11, 1820, and died in Frankfort, January 21, 1870. The parents of the foregoing were John and Polly (Tapp) Jeffers, both of them native Virginians, the father having been born in Culpeper county, that state. John Jeffers early identified himself with the Blue grass state and settled near Lexington, afterward removing to that city with his family and making his residence there for many years. Both the Jeffers and the Tapp family are of English descent. Elias Jeffers married Matilda Stubbs in 1841. The wife was a daughter of William and Betsy (Conway) Stubbs, Marylanders, who came to Kentucky by wagon in the year 1817, when Matilda was a babe eleven months old, her birth having occurred September 27, 1816. Her death occurred in Frankfort, March 5, 1895. To the grandparents of John Walter Jeffers were born four daughters and six sons, three of whom died in childhood. The others were Jams Wesley, (deceased), Benoni B., Mary Ellis (knows as Alice), California, Albert Guino, Bettie Alline and Cordelia (or Cordeallah). Six children are thus living at the present day. Elias Jeffers and his wife were God-fearing people, the father being a member of the Christian and the mother of the Baptist church. Elias Jeffers made the livelihood for himself and his family as a trader and farmer, and for the last six years of his life was assistant keeper of the Kentucky state penitentiary at Frankfort. He was a man who weighed over three hundred pounds and on account of his genial and generous personality was very popular in the community. His political convictions were Democratic. Albert Guino Jeffers, father of the subject of the sketch, was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, at Versailles, on December 30, 1853. He passed his childhood in his native place and then moved to Anderson county. After leaving school he moved to Franklin county, became assistant keeper of the state penitentiary under his father, and subsequently took up the vocation of farming and stock raising, in which he has proved very successful, having kept in touch with the latest scientific developments. It was in 1902 that he entered upon his duties as sheriff of Franklin county, having been elected upon the Democratic ticket, and he served for a term of four years. He was in office during the prosecution of James Howard, one of the alleged assassins of Governor Goebel. His service in this capacity had been preceded by eight years as deputy sheriff. Albert Guino Jeffers was married in 1878 to Miss Olive Ann Cain, born in Meade county, Kentucky, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Coleman) Cain, who were likewise natives of Meade county. John Cain was a miller, and during the war he was in business at Grahampton. To this union was born two sons, John Walter and Howard Benoni. John Walter Jeffers, whose name heads this account, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, August 2, 1880. He attended the Frankfort schools and was graduated from their higher department. Subsequent to this he studied stenography, bookkeeping and commercial law in a private school at Frankfort. When his father was elected sheriff in 1902 he became chief deputy, and he afterward successfully engaged in farming. In 1907 he was appointed master commissioner, which office he still holds. Like his forbears he is a stalwart supporter of the policies and principles of the Democratic party, and he is taking an influential position in its ranks. He is an enthusiastic Knight of Pythias and is past chancellor commander of the order. He was appointed to the receivership for the General Supply & Construction Company, which failed after securing the contract for the new state capitol building. These facts can not but be taken in evidence of the confidence he inspires in his fellow citizens. Jeffers Tapp Conway Stubbs Cain Coleman = Versailles-Woodford-KY Anderson-KY Meade-KY Lexington-Fayette-KY Scott-KY Culpeper-VA MD CA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/franklin/jeffers.jw.txt