STORY OF A REMARKABLE FAMILY.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 402, 24 January 1872, Page 7

STORY OF A REMARKABLE FAMILY.

About one mile from Jamestown, Russell county (Sure of Kentucky), there lives one of the most remarkable f.ur.ilie" in the United S Sates.; ates. Mr James Jeffries tells his own stoi'y, and says that he was married before he. was seven' pen years old, his wife ( >eing only five days younger than himself. They lived together seven years without; children, v/hen his wife «rn vie bind to twins — a boy and a o'irl. In the fifteen years that followed, nineteen children were born to the happy couple, each subsequent birth alternating. ''otween twin stntl single births, until the fifteen years were accomplished and nineretio children composed the fiirnily circle, seven pairs of twins being born during the time. Mr Jeffries is only 45 years old, and is still youthful in appeavan^e and very stont. His wife never liad better health in her life than at \^o.serit, rhoiig-h she will 'hot weigh a huh'lreti pounds. Her' greatest weiglit at any timb 'was 110 pounds. 'liie boy of the first 'wftis now wetglfs 165 pounds, the y, ; ir[ 125 pounds. All the boys who have grWh have made laro-e men ; the arc of «:ood size, and all the children heu'Miy, Rut five out of the nineteen h.-jv'j died, Mr Jeffries has ten broUmrs, all of whom are lar«:'e men ; and within the families of these eleven brother* ihere »re tliirty-snven pairs of twins, makih.ir seven ty-iour twin children, to say nothing, of the host ot' sin»le births. Five of Mr Jeffries' children are married; and add^l U) all those singular facts — notwithstanding the "absence of silvery locks on bis b^ad — he is the grandfather of five children.