Story of a Remarkable Family.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 113, 9 January 1872, Page 3

Story of a Remarkable Family.

,-j Ab-Ji.t <mo mile from Jamestown, Russell hj county, (State of Kentucky), there lives one t«; of the rnoso remirkable families inthe United J States. Mr Jam* JeitVies toils his own tv story, and says that lie was married (>«i\'svt: >, he was seventeen years old, his wife being -' only five days younger than liiiiuolt. I'iiey I.! lived together seven yoavs without children. . I when liis wife ga*'e birth t»twins —:i boy an t ij a girl. In the fifteen yoivs thai follo-.wd, t nineteen children w. re bull tj the h-.ppy pi couple, ea:h subse pivnt birth alfce-nadng be- -; twoon twin and single births, ;mtU the luieen 31 yeai*s were accomplished and nineteen chilli dren composed the family circle, srve 1 p.iirs -lof twins being born during the time. Mr Jeffries is oniy M~> years old, and is still 3 youthful in appearance and very .stout. His , ' v.it' ■ n 'V.T had better health in \\>x lit? than £i at -present, though she will not weigh a In:njidred pounds. Ller greatest weight at any ,; time was LJ.O pounds. Tiie boy of the firgi; twins now weighs b)"> p >unds, the ;;ii'l l'2o ..! pounds. - All the boys who have grown have , made largu men ; t!i i girls are of good size, i and all the children healthy. But five out r | of the si'motooii hive died. " Mr Jeffries has ten In*others, allot whom are largo m:ni; aid Within the 'amiiiis of these cloveu brothers there arc tliiv:.y-p-.!von pairs of twins, making seventy-'"our twin children, to say imSuiig of the hos'.o; smg'e births. Kive of Mr child "en are married : and a idol to ail tho se ■jingn'ar faet's iii vVJi >'>au 1 -ug the absence , father of live chillveu.