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John Burton Jefferson (1881 - 1948)

John Burton "Burt" Jefferson
Born in Moschelle, N.S.map
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married about 1917 (to about 1918) in Nova Scotiamap
Died at age 67 in Lawrencetown, N.S.map
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Biography

John was born about 1885. He was the son of Stephen Jefferson and Louisa Dennis[1]

Circa 1917 he married Mary Archibald, the daughter of William Charles and Alexina Florence (McKay) Archibald of Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Their children included:

  1. Florence Grace jefferson, who married Edward Belfit[2]

Mary died in 1918 from the influenza. In 1922 John remarried Helen Phinney, the daughter of Ernest Phinney and Gertrude Henrietta Balcom of Lawrencetown[3]

Burton Jefferson, age 40, appears in the 1921 Census with his parents[4], along with Grace and two other family members, Dorothea and Florence, who are similar in age to Grace.

He passed away in 1948,[5], and is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Lawrencetown[6]

Sources

  1. Nova Scotia Vital Records showing John Burton Jefferson, born 1881 in Rosette, Annapolis County can be found in Registration Year: 1904 - Page: 68100180
  2. "The Archibald Family of Nova Scotia: No Reward Without Effort" by Allan E. Marble, Past President and Fellow of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, printed by the Friesens Book Division in Altona Manitoba on February 2008, page 355
  3. Nova Scotia Vital Records showing Helen Phinney and John B. Jefferson married 1922 in Annapolis County can be found in Registration Year: 1922 - Book: 10 - Page: 722
  4. The 1921 Census shows the Jefferson family in Nova Scotia; District Name: Digby- Annapolis; District Number: 56; Sub-District Name: Lawrencetown no 3; Sub-District Number: 21; Sub-District Description: Brickton, Upper and Central Clarence; Family Number: 164; Page Number: 13; Line Number: 43; Reference: RG31, Statistics Canada; Item Number: 5653184
  5. Nova Scotia Vital Records showing John Burton Jefferson, died 1948 in Clarence West, Annapolis County can be found in Registration Year: 1948 - Page: 2309
  6. Find A Grave: Memorial #133369275




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