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Cornelia Frances Jefferson
American actress / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Australian actress, see Cornelia Frances.
Cornelia Frances Jefferson (née Cornelia Frances Thomas; 1 October 1796 in New York – 24 October 1848 in Philadelphia) was an early-American singer and prolific comic actress. She was known widely in her younger years as Mrs. Burke, which was the surname from her first marriage to Thomas Burke.[1][2]
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Cornelia Jefferson