ELIZABETH JEFFRIES
Elizabeth Jeffries was the daughter of Louis Eugene Jeffries and Mary Virginia (Hardie) Jeffries. She had siblings named Jsephine J Jeffries Cunningham, John Miller Jeffries, Virginia Jeffries, Louis E. Jeffries, Richard H. Jeffries and Alexander H Jeffries.
Elizabeth Jeffries and her brother, John Miller Jeffries, were killed in the Knickerbocker Theatre Disater on January 28,1922 in Washington, DC. They braved a blizzard to attend a showing of the silent film "Get Rich Quick Wallingford" at the Knickerbocker Theatre. The roof of the theatre collapsed killing 98 people and injuring 133 others.
The Washington Star, January 30,1922, Page 5.
DOUBLE FUNERAL HELD FOR BROTHER AND SISTER
John Jeffries was Graduate of G.W.U. -- Elizabeth just home from trip.
Funeral services for Miss Elizabeth Jeffries, twenty-three years old and for John miller Jeffries, twenty-seven years old, brother and sister will be held privately this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the family residence, 1767 Massachusetts Avenue. The bodies later will be sent to Selma, Alabama, where they formerly lived for burial on Wednesday morning. ..Miss Jeffries had just returned from a visit to her sister and brother-in-law, Major and Mrs Alfred Cunningham, in the city of Santo Domingo, Central America. She is a graduate of the Ogontz School of Pennsylvania. They are the children f L. E. Jeffries, General Colonel and Vice President of the Southern Railway system, and came here to live on January 1,1912. They are of a prominent Alabama family and are also well known in Richmond, Va., where they lived a number of years.
The Selma Times- Journal Monday, January 30,1922,
Page 1.
SELMA COUPLE KILLED IN THREATRE TRAGEDY BURIED HERE
John and Elizabeth Jeffries among 108 whose Lives are Snuffed Out in Roof Crash
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May Be Another Day Before Total Dead Can Be Known; Rescuers Work in Debris of Twisted Steel and Heavy Wreckage; Three Fold Probe of Tragedy to Fix Blame for Crash; Children Sleep Through Disaster.
--(By Associated Press)
Washington, January 30,1922, -- The bodies of John Miller Jeffries aged 27 and his sister, Elizabeth Jeffries aged 20, who lost their lives in the Knickerbocker theatre
collapse, will be sent to their former home in Selma tonight. Private funeral services will be held here late today.
Miss Jeffries had only recently returned from Central America where she visited her brother-in-law and sister, Major and Mrs Alfred A. Cunningham.
Grief reigned in Selma today as news of the death of John and Elizabeth Jeffries, in the Knickerbocker Theatre tragedy in Washington Saturday night, spread through the city of their birth. Hundreds of friends, former schoolmates and neighbors, were preparing to meet the funeral party when it arrives here Wednesday morning.
First information that Selma had been touched in the collapse of the snow weighted threatre was received Sunday when telegrams from L. E. Jeffries, father of the crash victims, General Counsel of the Southern Railway Company, brought the death message to H.W. Armstrong, E.C. Melvin and E.W. Pettus, former law partners of the stricken father. Later telegrams, received today stated that the party would leave Washington in the Jeffries private (rail) car at 10 o'clock tonight arriving here at 9:50 o'clock Wednesday morning.
Funeral services will be held from the Union Depot, on arrival of the Birmingham train Wednesday morning at 9:50 o'clock.
Pall Bearers for John Jeffries will be J.B. Evans, J.B Park, W.B. Criag, H.F. Reese, Sr. John Lapsley. J.A Fuller.
Those who will serve as Pallbearers for Miss Jeffries are: E.C. Melvin, H.C. Armstrong, E.W. Pettus, W.E. Callen, J.H. Shelley, Chambliss Keith.
Bringing home to Selma the terrible tragedy which is hourly assuming greater proportions, as new victims are found beneath the wreckage of the Washington picture Palace, the death of Mr. Jeffries and his sister, both born in Selma and endeared to many by the intimate ties of childhood friendships and those of young manhood and girlhood, has cast upon the hearts here a black pall of sadness. John Jeffries was a pupil at Dallas Academy, and later attended University of Alabama, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. His sister was also a student in the Selma Schools as a child, and finished her education in Washington.
Within the past few months, Mr Jeffries, who had been making his home in New York, returned to Washington to enter a business firm. He was 27 years of age.
His sister was 20 years of age. Those who remember her youthful vivacity and spontaneous friendliness, on the occasion of her visit to Miss Gertrude Melvin last spring find it hard to realize that death has touched her.
Mr and Mrs Jeffries and their sons, Louis and Alex and their daughter, Mrs George Munce, the latter of Richmond, will probably make up the family party to journey to Selma for the funeral. Mrs Alfred Cunningham, who is Santo Domingo, with her husband, who is stationed there with the air service, will not arrive.
Sympathy for the bereaved family is felt by the whole of Selma, and far beyond the confines of the city, for the hearts of many persons, who have not a personal interest in the name of Jeffries, are wrung by the poignant grief which is always felt over the untimely death of youthful persons.
Note: Thank you to Debbie K. Chambers for the family information, Knickerbocker Theatre Disaster information, and newspaper articles.
Elizabeth Jeffries was the daughter of Louis Eugene Jeffries and Mary Virginia (Hardie) Jeffries. She had siblings named Jsephine J Jeffries Cunningham, John Miller Jeffries, Virginia Jeffries, Louis E. Jeffries, Richard H. Jeffries and Alexander H Jeffries.
Elizabeth Jeffries and her brother, John Miller Jeffries, were killed in the Knickerbocker Theatre Disater on January 28,1922 in Washington, DC. They braved a blizzard to attend a showing of the silent film "Get Rich Quick Wallingford" at the Knickerbocker Theatre. The roof of the theatre collapsed killing 98 people and injuring 133 others.
The Washington Star, January 30,1922, Page 5.
DOUBLE FUNERAL HELD FOR BROTHER AND SISTER
John Jeffries was Graduate of G.W.U. -- Elizabeth just home from trip.
Funeral services for Miss Elizabeth Jeffries, twenty-three years old and for John miller Jeffries, twenty-seven years old, brother and sister will be held privately this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the family residence, 1767 Massachusetts Avenue. The bodies later will be sent to Selma, Alabama, where they formerly lived for burial on Wednesday morning. ..Miss Jeffries had just returned from a visit to her sister and brother-in-law, Major and Mrs Alfred Cunningham, in the city of Santo Domingo, Central America. She is a graduate of the Ogontz School of Pennsylvania. They are the children f L. E. Jeffries, General Colonel and Vice President of the Southern Railway system, and came here to live on January 1,1912. They are of a prominent Alabama family and are also well known in Richmond, Va., where they lived a number of years.
The Selma Times- Journal Monday, January 30,1922,
Page 1.
SELMA COUPLE KILLED IN THREATRE TRAGEDY BURIED HERE
John and Elizabeth Jeffries among 108 whose Lives are Snuffed Out in Roof Crash
---
May Be Another Day Before Total Dead Can Be Known; Rescuers Work in Debris of Twisted Steel and Heavy Wreckage; Three Fold Probe of Tragedy to Fix Blame for Crash; Children Sleep Through Disaster.
--(By Associated Press)
Washington, January 30,1922, -- The bodies of John Miller Jeffries aged 27 and his sister, Elizabeth Jeffries aged 20, who lost their lives in the Knickerbocker theatre
collapse, will be sent to their former home in Selma tonight. Private funeral services will be held here late today.
Miss Jeffries had only recently returned from Central America where she visited her brother-in-law and sister, Major and Mrs Alfred A. Cunningham.
Grief reigned in Selma today as news of the death of John and Elizabeth Jeffries, in the Knickerbocker Theatre tragedy in Washington Saturday night, spread through the city of their birth. Hundreds of friends, former schoolmates and neighbors, were preparing to meet the funeral party when it arrives here Wednesday morning.
First information that Selma had been touched in the collapse of the snow weighted threatre was received Sunday when telegrams from L. E. Jeffries, father of the crash victims, General Counsel of the Southern Railway Company, brought the death message to H.W. Armstrong, E.C. Melvin and E.W. Pettus, former law partners of the stricken father. Later telegrams, received today stated that the party would leave Washington in the Jeffries private (rail) car at 10 o'clock tonight arriving here at 9:50 o'clock Wednesday morning.
Funeral services will be held from the Union Depot, on arrival of the Birmingham train Wednesday morning at 9:50 o'clock.
Pall Bearers for John Jeffries will be J.B. Evans, J.B Park, W.B. Criag, H.F. Reese, Sr. John Lapsley. J.A Fuller.
Those who will serve as Pallbearers for Miss Jeffries are: E.C. Melvin, H.C. Armstrong, E.W. Pettus, W.E. Callen, J.H. Shelley, Chambliss Keith.
Bringing home to Selma the terrible tragedy which is hourly assuming greater proportions, as new victims are found beneath the wreckage of the Washington picture Palace, the death of Mr. Jeffries and his sister, both born in Selma and endeared to many by the intimate ties of childhood friendships and those of young manhood and girlhood, has cast upon the hearts here a black pall of sadness. John Jeffries was a pupil at Dallas Academy, and later attended University of Alabama, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. His sister was also a student in the Selma Schools as a child, and finished her education in Washington.
Within the past few months, Mr Jeffries, who had been making his home in New York, returned to Washington to enter a business firm. He was 27 years of age.
His sister was 20 years of age. Those who remember her youthful vivacity and spontaneous friendliness, on the occasion of her visit to Miss Gertrude Melvin last spring find it hard to realize that death has touched her.
Mr and Mrs Jeffries and their sons, Louis and Alex and their daughter, Mrs George Munce, the latter of Richmond, will probably make up the family party to journey to Selma for the funeral. Mrs Alfred Cunningham, who is Santo Domingo, with her husband, who is stationed there with the air service, will not arrive.
Sympathy for the bereaved family is felt by the whole of Selma, and far beyond the confines of the city, for the hearts of many persons, who have not a personal interest in the name of Jeffries, are wrung by the poignant grief which is always felt over the untimely death of youthful persons.
Note: Thank you to Debbie K. Chambers for the family information, Knickerbocker Theatre Disaster information, and newspaper articles.
ELIZABETH JEFFRIES
Elizabeth Jeffries was the daughter of Louis Eugene Jeffries and Mary Virginia (Hardie) Jeffries. She had siblings named Jsephine J Jeffries Cunningham, John Miller Jeffries, Virginia Jeffries, Louis E. Jeffries, Richard H. Jeffries and Alexander H Jeffries.
Elizabeth Jeffries and her brother, John Miller Jeffries, were killed in the Knickerbocker Theatre Disater on January 28,1922 in Washington, DC. They braved a blizzard to attend a showing of the silent film "Get Rich Quick Wallingford" at the Knickerbocker Theatre. The roof of the theatre collapsed killing 98 people and injuring 133 others.
The Washington Star, January 30,1922, Page 5.
DOUBLE FUNERAL HELD FOR BROTHER AND SISTER
John Jeffries was Graduate of G.W.U. -- Elizabeth just home from trip.
Funeral services for Miss Elizabeth Jeffries, twenty-three years old and for John miller Jeffries, twenty-seven years old, brother and sister will be held privately this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the family residence, 1767 Massachusetts Avenue. The bodies later will be sent to Selma, Alabama, where they formerly lived for burial on Wednesday morning. ..Miss Jeffries had just returned from a visit to her sister and brother-in-law, Major and Mrs Alfred Cunningham, in the city of Santo Domingo, Central America. She is a graduate of the Ogontz School of Pennsylvania. They are the children f L. E. Jeffries, General Colonel and Vice President of the Southern Railway system, and came here to live on January 1,1912. They are of a prominent Alabama family and are also well known in Richmond, Va., where they lived a number of years.
The Selma Times- Journal Monday, January 30,1922,
Page 1.
SELMA COUPLE KILLED IN THREATRE TRAGEDY BURIED HERE
John and Elizabeth Jeffries among 108 whose Lives are Snuffed Out in Roof Crash
---
May Be Another Day Before Total Dead Can Be Known; Rescuers Work in Debris of Twisted Steel and Heavy Wreckage; Three Fold Probe of Tragedy to Fix Blame for Crash; Children Sleep Through Disaster.
--(By Associated Press)
Washington, January 30,1922, -- The bodies of John Miller Jeffries aged 27 and his sister, Elizabeth Jeffries aged 20, who lost their lives in the Knickerbocker theatre
collapse, will be sent to their former home in Selma tonight. Private funeral services will be held here late today.
Miss Jeffries had only recently returned from Central America where she visited her brother-in-law and sister, Major and Mrs Alfred A. Cunningham.
Grief reigned in Selma today as news of the death of John and Elizabeth Jeffries, in the Knickerbocker Theatre tragedy in Washington Saturday night, spread through the city of their birth. Hundreds of friends, former schoolmates and neighbors, were preparing to meet the funeral party when it arrives here Wednesday morning.
First information that Selma had been touched in the collapse of the snow weighted threatre was received Sunday when telegrams from L. E. Jeffries, father of the crash victims, General Counsel of the Southern Railway Company, brought the death message to H.W. Armstrong, E.C. Melvin and E.W. Pettus, former law partners of the stricken father. Later telegrams, received today stated that the party would leave Washington in the Jeffries private (rail) car at 10 o'clock tonight arriving here at 9:50 o'clock Wednesday morning.
Funeral services will be held from the Union Depot, on arrival of the Birmingham train Wednesday morning at 9:50 o'clock.
Pall Bearers for John Jeffries will be J.B. Evans, J.B Park, W.B. Criag, H.F. Reese, Sr. John Lapsley. J.A Fuller.
Those who will serve as Pallbearers for Miss Jeffries are: E.C. Melvin, H.C. Armstrong, E.W. Pettus, W.E. Callen, J.H. Shelley, Chambliss Keith.
Bringing home to Selma the terrible tragedy which is hourly assuming greater proportions, as new victims are found beneath the wreckage of the Washington picture Palace, the death of Mr. Jeffries and his sister, both born in Selma and endeared to many by the intimate ties of childhood friendships and those of young manhood and girlhood, has cast upon the hearts here a black pall of sadness. John Jeffries was a pupil at Dallas Academy, and later attended University of Alabama, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. His sister was also a student in the Selma Schools as a child, and finished her education in Washington.
Within the past few months, Mr Jeffries, who had been making his home in New York, returned to Washington to enter a business firm. He was 27 years of age.
His sister was 20 years of age. Those who remember her youthful vivacity and spontaneous friendliness, on the occasion of her visit to Miss Gertrude Melvin last spring find it hard to realize that death has touched her.
Mr and Mrs Jeffries and their sons, Louis and Alex and their daughter, Mrs George Munce, the latter of Richmond, will probably make up the family party to journey to Selma for the funeral. Mrs Alfred Cunningham, who is Santo Domingo, with her husband, who is stationed there with the air service, will not arrive.
Sympathy for the bereaved family is felt by the whole of Selma, and far beyond the confines of the city, for the hearts of many persons, who have not a personal interest in the name of Jeffries, are wrung by the poignant grief which is always felt over the untimely death of youthful persons.
Note: Thank you to Debbie K. Chambers for the family information, Knickerbocker Theatre Disaster information, and newspaper articles.
Elizabeth Jeffries was the daughter of Louis Eugene Jeffries and Mary Virginia (Hardie) Jeffries. She had siblings named Jsephine J Jeffries Cunningham, John Miller Jeffries, Virginia Jeffries, Louis E. Jeffries, Richard H. Jeffries and Alexander H Jeffries.
Elizabeth Jeffries and her brother, John Miller Jeffries, were killed in the Knickerbocker Theatre Disater on January 28,1922 in Washington, DC. They braved a blizzard to attend a showing of the silent film "Get Rich Quick Wallingford" at the Knickerbocker Theatre. The roof of the theatre collapsed killing 98 people and injuring 133 others.
The Washington Star, January 30,1922, Page 5.
DOUBLE FUNERAL HELD FOR BROTHER AND SISTER
John Jeffries was Graduate of G.W.U. -- Elizabeth just home from trip.
Funeral services for Miss Elizabeth Jeffries, twenty-three years old and for John miller Jeffries, twenty-seven years old, brother and sister will be held privately this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the family residence, 1767 Massachusetts Avenue. The bodies later will be sent to Selma, Alabama, where they formerly lived for burial on Wednesday morning. ..Miss Jeffries had just returned from a visit to her sister and brother-in-law, Major and Mrs Alfred Cunningham, in the city of Santo Domingo, Central America. She is a graduate of the Ogontz School of Pennsylvania. They are the children f L. E. Jeffries, General Colonel and Vice President of the Southern Railway system, and came here to live on January 1,1912. They are of a prominent Alabama family and are also well known in Richmond, Va., where they lived a number of years.
The Selma Times- Journal Monday, January 30,1922,
Page 1.
SELMA COUPLE KILLED IN THREATRE TRAGEDY BURIED HERE
John and Elizabeth Jeffries among 108 whose Lives are Snuffed Out in Roof Crash
---
May Be Another Day Before Total Dead Can Be Known; Rescuers Work in Debris of Twisted Steel and Heavy Wreckage; Three Fold Probe of Tragedy to Fix Blame for Crash; Children Sleep Through Disaster.
--(By Associated Press)
Washington, January 30,1922, -- The bodies of John Miller Jeffries aged 27 and his sister, Elizabeth Jeffries aged 20, who lost their lives in the Knickerbocker theatre
collapse, will be sent to their former home in Selma tonight. Private funeral services will be held here late today.
Miss Jeffries had only recently returned from Central America where she visited her brother-in-law and sister, Major and Mrs Alfred A. Cunningham.
Grief reigned in Selma today as news of the death of John and Elizabeth Jeffries, in the Knickerbocker Theatre tragedy in Washington Saturday night, spread through the city of their birth. Hundreds of friends, former schoolmates and neighbors, were preparing to meet the funeral party when it arrives here Wednesday morning.
First information that Selma had been touched in the collapse of the snow weighted threatre was received Sunday when telegrams from L. E. Jeffries, father of the crash victims, General Counsel of the Southern Railway Company, brought the death message to H.W. Armstrong, E.C. Melvin and E.W. Pettus, former law partners of the stricken father. Later telegrams, received today stated that the party would leave Washington in the Jeffries private (rail) car at 10 o'clock tonight arriving here at 9:50 o'clock Wednesday morning.
Funeral services will be held from the Union Depot, on arrival of the Birmingham train Wednesday morning at 9:50 o'clock.
Pall Bearers for John Jeffries will be J.B. Evans, J.B Park, W.B. Criag, H.F. Reese, Sr. John Lapsley. J.A Fuller.
Those who will serve as Pallbearers for Miss Jeffries are: E.C. Melvin, H.C. Armstrong, E.W. Pettus, W.E. Callen, J.H. Shelley, Chambliss Keith.
Bringing home to Selma the terrible tragedy which is hourly assuming greater proportions, as new victims are found beneath the wreckage of the Washington picture Palace, the death of Mr. Jeffries and his sister, both born in Selma and endeared to many by the intimate ties of childhood friendships and those of young manhood and girlhood, has cast upon the hearts here a black pall of sadness. John Jeffries was a pupil at Dallas Academy, and later attended University of Alabama, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. His sister was also a student in the Selma Schools as a child, and finished her education in Washington.
Within the past few months, Mr Jeffries, who had been making his home in New York, returned to Washington to enter a business firm. He was 27 years of age.
His sister was 20 years of age. Those who remember her youthful vivacity and spontaneous friendliness, on the occasion of her visit to Miss Gertrude Melvin last spring find it hard to realize that death has touched her.
Mr and Mrs Jeffries and their sons, Louis and Alex and their daughter, Mrs George Munce, the latter of Richmond, will probably make up the family party to journey to Selma for the funeral. Mrs Alfred Cunningham, who is Santo Domingo, with her husband, who is stationed there with the air service, will not arrive.
Sympathy for the bereaved family is felt by the whole of Selma, and far beyond the confines of the city, for the hearts of many persons, who have not a personal interest in the name of Jeffries, are wrung by the poignant grief which is always felt over the untimely death of youthful persons.
Note: Thank you to Debbie K. Chambers for the family information, Knickerbocker Theatre Disaster information, and newspaper articles.
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