Fannie Lois DuBose Jeffries

First Generation | 1849-1926

*Born in Marengo County, Alabama, to Nelly.

*Reared in the household of wealthy planter James Henry DuBose, 1811-1908, and his wife Harriet Evans Pegues, 1814-1890.  In 1840, DuBose relocated his family and slaves from Darlington, South Carolina, to Marengo County, Alabama.

*Nelly, mother of Fannie, was born in South Carolina in 1829 and died in Hale County sometime after 1900 and before 1910.  Nelly was a slave in the J. H. DuBose household.  In 1849 she was banished from her status as household servant to field slave when she refused to reveal the name of the person who fathered Fannie Lois.  On the 1870 census Nelly is enumerated in Hale County with her husband Jake Brown along with nine of their children.

*Fannie Lois grew up in the DuBose household.  Her marriage to Tom Jeffries on January 24, 1867, was held at the home of J. H. DuBose. Tom and Fannie’s marriage endured 59 years, ending when she passed away September 1926.

*Fannie and Tom made their home in Allenville “Freetown”, Hale County.  She was a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church.

Fannie Lois DuBose Jeffries, 1849-1926.