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Thomas J. Jefferson

1799 - 1880
Amelia Co, VA - Marion Co., AR

Occupation:  Farmer and Public Servant
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Member of the first group of School Superintendants for Rutherford Co., NC,  in 1841
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Served as a Justice of the Peace from 1841 to 1847 in Rutherford County, NC
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 He was a leader and an elder in the Brittain Prespyterian Church, Rutherford County, NC, for many years.
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State Representative of Rutherford Co., NC, 1836, 1840 and 1842
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Thomas Jefferson and John Gilkey were elected commissioners on the part of Rutherford 
to attend to the running of the county lines between McDowell and Rutherford"  Feb. 1843
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State Senator from Rutherford Co., NC, August, 1844
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He was elected Register for the meeting in the creation of Polk Co., out of Rutherford Co., on Feb. 22, 1847
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 Migrated to Marion Co., Arkansas - about 1847
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 Marion County, Arkansas, Seat Treasurer 1848 to 1850:
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County Judge, Marion Co, Arkansas 1848-1850 & 1852-1854
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County Treasurer, Marion Co., Arkansas, 1850
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County Assessor, Marion County, Arkansas in 1872-1874
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Buried in the Jefferson Cemetery on the the old Jefferson Farm, Marion Co, Arkansas about 2 miles outside of Yellville
Cemetery is known as the Jefferson - Weast Cemetery
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Letter from Larry J. Jefferson on the condition of the Jefferson Cemetery



Listing from the 1840 NC census of Rutherford County:
Date
SNDX
L Name
F Name
NARS
StR
Page No.
Family Grp
1840
J162
JEFFERSON
Bas.
M-704
370
330
NdRcdn
1840
J162
JEFFERSON
Thomas
M-704
370
329
NdRcdn

Deed Index Books of Rutherford County, NC

Grantor 
Grantees Name
Instrument 
Book
Page 
Year filed
Jefferson, Nancy M. & Thomas
Groves, Jesse M.
Deed
41- 42
62 
1835
Jefferson, Nancy M. & Thomas
Watson, James
Deed
45
516 -17
1847
Groves, Jesse
Jefferson, Thomas
Deed
41- 42
64
1835

References:
"Genealogies of Marion County Families 1811-1900" - Published by: Historic Genealogical Society of Marion Co. AR
Jefferson Family Tree and History 1772-1976" by Dorse Lee JEFFERSON.
History of Marion County" by Earl BERRY,  Library of Congress #77-73201 Copyrighted 1977
Tax Records for Marion Co., AR, housed at the Yellville Library
Family Records of Helen Marie [JEFFERSON] Storey,  G Grandaughter of Thomas Jefferson
"History of Old Tryon and Rutherford Counties, North Carolina 1730 - 1936" by: Clarence W. Griffin,
     Published by: The Reprint Company, Spartanburg, NC 1982, pp. 210, 214, 217, 220, 221, 222, 225, 232, and 553

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