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Henrietta Phelps Jeffries

1857–1926

United States

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Henrietta Phelps Jeffries (January 5, 1857 – August 22, 1926) was an African American midwife and a founding member of the Macedonia A.M.E. Church located in Milton, North Carolina.

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