Joseph Pink Smelser was born about 1858 to John W. and Nancy (Clark)
Smelser in Greene County, Arkansas.
In 1860 he was living with his parents in St. Francis Township, listed
as Joseph P., two years old.
In 1870 he was listed as Joseph P., 12 years old, living with his
parents in Cache Township near Crowley.
1876 County Warrant: Greene Co., AR: Pink Smelser, witness
On 4 July 1878 in Greene County, Joseph P. Smelser of Cache Township, age 20,
married Margarett E. Adams, age 20, of Cache Township. [John Chandler, L.D.,
M.E. Church South, Book II, page 212.]
1880 Greene Co., AR School District 16 - Joseph P. Smelser
In 1880 Joseph and Margarett were living with his parents in Cache
Township.
1880 Greene Co., AR Cache Twp., Crowley P.O. SD 1, ED 101, pg 18, #150 #158 4 Jun 1880
Smelser, Jno W m 52 hh KY KY TN
Nancy f 52 wf TN SC TN
Joseph m 21 son AR KY TN
Margaret f 22 d-i-l AR TN TN
Benjamin m 19 nephew AR KY TN
John W. Jr. m 1 nephew AR AR AR
Smith, Adeline f 31 sis AR KY TN
James m 13 nephew AR GA AR
Nancy f 8 niece AR GA AR
Joseph and Margarett had two children, John William, and Nancy Ann
Delvada, who died at age 7.
According to Terry Smelser, the 1900 Arkansas census showed Joseph and
his wife, Annie, living in Randolph County.
The following article was written about Joseph P. Smelser. The source
needs to be documented.
JOSEPH P. SMELSER
Joseph P. Smelser is classed among the worthy and leading tillers of
the soil of Greene Co., of which he is a native, having been born
in 1858. He was a son of John W. and Nancy (Clark) Smelser, who were
born on KY soil and in TN respectively. They came to Greene Co., AR on
the 6th of May 1836, and located in Cache Township, where the paternal
grandfather, Abraham Smelser, settled on a tract of wild land and
opened up 100 acres. He and wife reared a large family of children,
and both died of smallpox in 1863. John W. Smelser was their oldest child,
and attained his majority in this section of the country. In 1864 he
joined Price in his raid through MO, but since the war has given his
attention to farming and merchandising at Crowley, he and wife being
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at that place. To them were
born seven children, three of whom are deceased. Joseph P. Smelser is
their fifth child and grew to manhood in Cache Township, receiving
a very limited education in his youth. At the age of twenty years he
began earning his own living, and was married to Miss Margaret Adams,
residing on the old home place for 8 years. He then came to this present
location, which was then a tract of wild land, and now has fifty acres under
cultivation, improved with good buildings, etc.
Although not active in politics, he votes the Democratic ticket, and
he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. They
are the parents of two children: John William and Nancy Ann Delvada,
who died at the age of seven years, after a brief illness of five days.
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