Henrietta Phelps Jeffries

Henrietta Phelps Jeffries was an African American midwife and a founding member of the Macedonia A.M.E. Church located in Milton, North Carolina.

Henrietta Phelps was born the daughter of a slave, Elija Phelps, and Charlotte Ann Bennett, a midwife. Henrietta was the oldest daughter in a family ofchildren. She grew up in her family home with her parents until her first marriage to George Lawson of Milton, North Carolina, on January 21, 1872, at the age of 15. The marriage produced a son, George, Jr. Henrietta was widowed by age 22. She subsequently married Allen Henderson Jeffries, a tobacco farmer of Caswell County in Leasburg, North Carolina, on July 30, 1881. Henrietta hadchildren with Allen Jeffries, and was mother tochildren total. The family resided in Milton, North Carolina.

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