Joseph Smith

Birth Date

1815-01-08

Death Date

1875-09-19

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Boyle County, Kentucky, physician and university curator. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret Jane Rogers Smith in Madison County, Kentucky, on January 2, 1839. Father of Samuel R. Smith, John E. Smith, Joseph I. Smith, Robert H. Smith, Bowman Smith, William Smith, Joanna Smith, and Milton Smith. Physician in Boyle County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Physician in Boyle County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860. Member of the board of curators of Kentucky University in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 1, p. 355B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 1, p. 837 (p. 2 of microfilm).
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 893.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 152 (p. 11 of microfilm).
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 4, p. 324B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Madison County Marriages, Film #000183302, p. 133 of microfilm.
Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1908-1958), TSLA, Roll #4, Blount County Deaths, File #9787, p.111 of microfilm (Bowman Smith).
Find A Grave, "Dr Joseph Smith (1815-1875)," Memorial 98387476, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98387476 (accessed December 26, 2019).
KYR-0001-009-0038.

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