Jeffrey, Kentucky

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.

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
CountryUnited States
StateKentucky
CountyMonroe
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes
42157
GNIS feature ID4296220[1]

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 turbine 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 water-powered turbine 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. 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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