Perry L. Jeffers (born 12 August 1816) came to Lyndon in 1836, and worked for C. G. Woodruff that season. He afterwards made a claim southwest of W. O. Dudley's, and sold it to John M. Scott, and then settled in Delhi, where he secured a farm of four hundred acres.
Mr. Jeffers was elected Sheriff of Whiteside county in 1850, and made a capable and thorough going officer.
He married Julia, eldest daughter of Chauncy G. Woodruff, in 1838; she dying,
he married Miss Ann Bidwell, and after her death
married Miss Philena L. Fitch. He died of cholera at Lyndon in August (31), 1854. Children,
John and Charles.
Bent & Wilson History 1877
