On the Farm

ID: 1826 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of the Baylor University Texas Collection
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On the Farm

Jeffie Conner's mother, Meddie Allen, working in her garden on the family farm at Harrison. After Jeffie became a home demonstration agent, she used her mother's farm as a site for demonstrations to instruct and assist rural women and their families.

This file appears in: Jeffie Conner

By Stephanie Endicott
Jeffie Obrea Allen Conner was born in 1895 on her family’s farm in Harrison Switch, Texas. She was the oldest of three children born to Meddie Lilian and Jeff D. Allen. Harrison Switch, later known as Harrison, was a small African American community…