jeffcourt

Updated: June 18, 2025

"There was her cousin, Jule Jeffcourt, shot in the cemetery with her beau, who, they say, was Sally's too; there were Chet Brooks and Joyce Masterton, who were both gone on her and both killed too; and there was old Captain Dows himself, who never lifted his head again after Richmond was taken, and drank himself to death.

Bret Harte - Sally Dows

But it was known the next day that, while Mrs. Jeffcourt accepted the body at Corbin's hands, and it is presumed the funeral expenses also, he was positively forbidden to appear either at the services at the house or at the church. There was to be a political meeting at Kirby on that day, when certain distinguished Southern leaders had gathered from the remoter Southern States.

Bret Harte - Colonel Starbottle's Client