Joseph Smothers

Joseph Smothers (Claiborne County)

State House: 1872-1876

Born: c. 1830 in Kentucky

Baptist Minister. Vice president of the Colored Baptist Missionary Convention. Listed on the 1880 census in Claiborne County with wife Milly and several children. By 1900, Milly had remarried a William Booze.

Signature of Joseph Smothers
Signature of Joseph Smothers from an 1874 petition to Governor Ames
Petition to Governor Ames, Feb 2, 1874
Petition to Governor Ames, Feb 2, 1874
Weekly Mississippi Pilot, February 20, 1875
Weekly Mississippi Pilot, Feb 20, 1875
Vicksburg Evening Post, July 21, 1885
Vicksburg Herald, July 29, 1886

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