State President of the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, County Superintendent of the WCTU, Secretary of the Third Ward WCTU, and Section President of the Needlework Guild of America. Jeffrey helped create clubs for African-American women, including the Susan B. Anthony Club for black women. This club worked towards women's suffrage and created a Mothers' Council, to help women with small children. Other clubs she created were the Climbers and the Hester C. Jeffrey Club for young black women. The Hester C. Jeffrey Club helped raise money for young black women to take classes at what later became the Rochester Institute of Technology. She served on the Douglass Monument Committee, which raised funds and commissioned the first monument to an African-American in 1897, a statue of Frederick Douglass, in his hometown of Rochester, New York. She was chosen to direct the music at its unveiling, as well as at the memorial service prior to it that would have included the unveiling, were the statue not delayed. Jeffrey was friends with Susan B. Anthony and was often seen at Anthony's home in Rochester. Jeffrey was the only layperson to give a eulogy at Anthony's funeral service held in 1906. She had also been selected to represent on "behalf of the negro" at the funeral. The eulogy expressed both sorrow for Anthony's death and also praised her advocacy for women's suffrage. Jeffrey also created the first memorial for Anthony, which was a stained-glass window installed at the AME Zion church and unveiled in 1907. Her husband died in 1908 in Rochester. By 1915, Jeffrey had moved back to Boston, where she lived with her niece, Georgine (née Glover) Brown, at 418 Newbury St. The women taught music. Hester died on January 2, 1934, in Boston and is buried in an unmarked grave in Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett next to her sister, Phoebe Whitehurst Glover. The family plot also has their brother Manuel, and Phoebe's three children and son-in-law. References External links Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934) on BlackPast 1840s births 1934 deaths 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women Activists from Massachusetts Activists from Rochester, New York Activists from Virginia African-American suffragists American suffragists American political activists People from Boston People from Norfolk, Virginia Year of birth uncertain