Josephine Mitchell
b. February 1855, d. 26 April 1915
- Josephine Mitchell was born in February 1855 in Alabama.
- Josephine Mitchell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery, Alabama, living in the household of planter Eaves Bradford (age 66).. Others in the household include W. P. & Margaret Dawson and their children, planter James H. Ware, Russ Caswell (age 25), and Anderson W. Mitchell (age 3), presumably her brother. Nearby households include Thwatt E. Mitchell (age 34), William Abner Abercrombie's widow Mary (age 85), her son J[ohn] B. Abercrombie (age 58), and Edward G. W. Abercrombie (age 39), presumably her son Edmund.
- She married Benjamin Baldwin Meriwether, son of Thomas Meriwether and Elizabeth Matilda Baldwin, on 27 February 1877 in Elmore County, Alabama, with H. Clay Hall officiating.
- Benjamin Baldwin Meriwether and Josephine Mitchell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Greenwood, Bullock County, Alabama, and children not yet recorded.
- Her husband Benjamin Baldwin Meriwether became a widower at her death.
- Josephine Mitchell died on 26 April 1915 at age 60 in Bullock County, Alabama.
- She was interred at Crews Cemetery, Fitzpatrick, Bullock County, Alabama, near Mitchell Station.
- Last Edited: 27 Feb 2012
Family: Benjamin Baldwin Meriwether b. 14 November 1845, d. 3 May 1915
- Mary Meriwether b. circa 1891, d. 23 February 1971
- Nina Meriwether b. circa 1894, d. 30 January 1967