Care of Cothran and Jeffers
Speaking of transportation and delivery services: as well as moving steam-ship passengers and bat guano, Henry L. Jeffers delivered the mail - even in times of war.
In the Jeffers brothers’ 1860s Civil War letters, I see frequent requests that their father send boxes of supplies to their camps via “Adams Express.” Adams Express was the big nation-wide shipping company, the FedEX of the day. But in the up-country of South Carolina, H. L. Jeffers maintained his own recognized place in the transportation of goods and mail.
In the Jeffers brothers’ 1860s Civil War letters, I see frequent requests that their father send boxes of supplies to their camps via “Adams Express.” Adams Express was the big nation-wide shipping company, the FedEX of the day. But in the up-country of South Carolina, H. L. Jeffers maintained his own recognized place in the transportation of goods and mail.
This line of business continued from Jeffers’ solo ventures in the 1830’s, through the years of partnership with Wade S. Cothran, and right through the Civil War years.
I instantly recognized a reference I ran across in the intriguing book of Civil War letters written by the Boyd brothers of Abbeville. In 1861, Robert P. Boyd wrote to his father requesting letters from home, and telling him how to mail them: “back yor letters RP Boyd, Barnwell Dis, Woodward post offis, car of Cathern and Jeffers.” (The Boys of Diamond Hill: the Lives and Civil War Letters of the Boyd Family of Abbeville County, South Carolina. Edited by J. Keith Jones, 2011.)
I instantly recognized a reference I ran across in the intriguing book of Civil War letters written by the Boyd brothers of Abbeville. In 1861, Robert P. Boyd wrote to his father requesting letters from home, and telling him how to mail them: “back yor letters RP Boyd, Barnwell Dis, Woodward post offis, car of Cathern and Jeffers.” (The Boys of Diamond Hill: the Lives and Civil War Letters of the Boyd Family of Abbeville County, South Carolina. Edited by J. Keith Jones, 2011.)
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