Barry County Missouri - Leroy Jeffries Photo Collection

Barry County Missouri - Leroy Jeffries Photo Collection - Monett The Leroy Jeffries Photo Collection
Monett, Barry County Missouri

Mr. Leroy Jeffries was one of the first merchants in Monett and settled there in 1882 when it was still Plymouth. He was also a county official and lived in Cassville from 1914 to 1922. The Jeffries material includes several interesting photos of early Monett and a few of Cassville.

This collection is in the possession of Bob Banks who has scanned and submitted them to MoBarry

Please Click each photo to view it larger

	Dr. T.H. Jeffries and family, about 1890s. Dr. Thomas Hampton Jeffries and wife Mary Jane Ricketts (parents of Leroy), with their six children who survived to adulthood. Back row, left to right, Leroy, Lawson and Bertha Jeffries. Center row, in unknown order, Donna Wormington, Emma Reese and Nolia Jones, all nee Jeffries.
	The Leroy Jeffries family about 1895. Leroy Jeffries and his wife Mary Emelie Turpin, with daughter Letha, infant son Guy Byron and son Earl. The Jeffries had another daughter, Lalah (nicknamed "Trink"), born after this photo was taken.
	Photograph, early 1880s, Leroy Jeffries' first store in Monett (Plymouth Junction). Jeffries came to Monett in November, 1882, and was an active merchant in Monett until his death in 1951. The grocery store shown and most of the town burned about 1885. Jeffries is standing just to the left of the entrance way, hatless and holding a white package. His father, Dr. T.H. Jeffries, is standing just to the right of the entrance way next to a man who appears to be Black. Lloyd B. Jones, who married Leroy's sister Nolia Jeffries, is driving the delivery hack. The man at the extreme left is Charles McBride. The man standing at the door of the little shack at right is Dick Brite of Pierce City. The others are unknown.
	Leroy Jeffries' third store in Monett, built in 1892 on the northwest corner of Main Street & Central Avenue and replaced by the 1923 gas station shown in other photographs below. Before highway 37 was built in 1929, Central was the main road into Monett from the south. Jeffries' first two stores were across Main on the southwest corner of Main & Central. Jeffries is shown with his daughter Trink. Photo about 1905 to 1910.
	Lawson Jeffries, Monett's First Fire Chief, about 1900 to 1910. The emblem on the hat says "Chief." The ribbon says "Annual Meeting, Southwestern Firemen's Association, Webb City." The photograph was taken at Spracklen's Studio in Webb City, MO.
	Postcard, 1907 postmark, Monett's Broadway.
	Postcard, 1907 postmark, the new Frisco Roundhouse in Monett.
	Postcard, April 10, 1908, a flood on Monett's Broadway.
	Parade on Monett's Broadway street on June 17, 1908. A note on the back says it was a "Local Option" parade, presumably something to do with the temperance movement.
	Postcard, Monett Chautauqua, July 7 - 18, 1908. (Chautauqua - an institution that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries providing popular education combined with entertainment in the form of lectures, concerts, and plays often presented outdoors or in a tent.)
	Postcard with a 1909 postmark, women's basketball at Monett.
	Postcard, undated but around 1910, Monett City Hall.
	July 4, 1911, gathering to witness the first aeroplane flight in Monett. The pilot was Logan D. McKee, a local druggist.
	Frisco Yard Crew, Monett, May 27,1912. Earl Jeffries, Leroy's son, is at left. The other three men are unknown, although a note on the back says "compliments of Paddy Clinton 5/27/12." Earl Jeffries was a switchman. On the night of April 3, 1914, he fell beneath the moving cars of a train in the Monett yard and was killed instantly.
	Frisco Night Crew of Coach Engine, Monett, early teens. Earl Jeffries is second from right. The others are unknown.
	Former President Teddy Roosevelt making a campaign whistle stop in Monett on Sept. 23, 1912 This was when he ran for President as a third party candidate on the Bull Moose ticket.
	Cigar Factory Girls, Monett, 1913. Ruth Roderick is the girl in black at front left; the others are unknown. At right is a scan of the front of a William Frederick's cigar tin, "copyright 1915 by Wm. Frederick, Monett, Mo."
	Photograph, 1920s, Leroy Jeffries' first gas station in Monett. Located at the corner of Main Street and Central Avenue. The view is north up Central. Jeffries was Barry County Clerk from 1914 to 1922 and lived in Cassville. Before moving to Cassville, he was a Monett grocer and druggist. When he returned to Monett in 1923, he switched to servicing the automobile. In 1929, he moved his station to a location on the newly built highway 37.
	Photograph, 1923, Jeffries standing at the pumps of his first gas station. This photograph may have originally appeared in the Monett Times.
	About 1950, the Jeffries Motor Company, Monett. This gas station built by Leroy Jeffries opened July 3, 1929, and continued in operation into the early 1960s. It was located on highway 37, just north of the Frisco viaduct and about two blocks north of the junction of highways 37 and 60. The buildings remain in use today.
	Patterson Mill, Monett, undated.

Return to Focus on Monett
Return to Barry County

You are the [an error occurred while processing this directive] visitor since this page opened May 22, 2002