Jewell Norene Josey

1907-1992 · Georgia

Born 1907, Washington County, Georgia

Died 1992

Father: Henry Lewis Josey

Mother: Martha Elizabeth Belle Smith

Children include Eunice

Jewell Norene Josey was born in Washington County, Georgia, on 9 July 1907. She was one of the nine children of Henry Lewis Josey, a planter near Bartow, and Belle Smith. In 1913, when she was five, her parents took the leading part in organizing the Josey Baptist Church.

About 1923 she married Kendrick Marvin Smith, also of Washington County. Their daughters Lora and Eunice were born in Georgia, and about 1929 the family moved to Bath, a mill village in Aiken County, South Carolina, where Kendrick worked for the mill. Four sons followed. The third, Gerald, died in 1945 at six.

Jewell was a homemaker and a member of Bath First Baptist Church, where she belonged to the Women's Missionary Union. When her father died in 1939 his obituary listed her as "Mrs. Jewel Smith." When her mother died in 1952 she was "Mrs. K. M. Smith of Bath, S.C." Kendrick died in 1965, and she lived on in Bath for twenty-seven years.

Jewell Josey Smith died on Monday, 10 February 1992, at the Mattie C. Hall Health Care Center in Aiken, aged 84. The funeral was held at Hatcher Funeral Home in Langley, with Rev. Gene Jennings and Rev. Vina Mae Josey officiating, and she was buried beside Kendrick in Langley Cemetery. She left two daughters, three sons, eighteen grandchildren, twenty-nine great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. Her grandsons and great-grandsons carried her.

Parents

Martha Elizabeth Belle Smith 1875-1952 Henry Lewis Josey 1873-1939

Children

Eunice L. Smith 1926-2017

Sources

Augusta Chronicle, 16 June 1965, page 6, column 3, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 30957012

Augusta Chronicle, 11 February 1992, page 5C, column 2, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 30957001

Find a Grave, memorial 30957012, Kendrick Marvin Smith, Langley Cemetery, photograph added by Debbie L, 29 October 2008

Macon Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, Sunday, 3 December 1939, page 10; clipping added to Find a Grave memorial 31118953 by Loree & Billy Beacham, 27 July 2018

Sandersville Progress, Sandersville, Georgia, 14 February 1952; clipping added to Find a Grave memorial 31118945 by Joy Pendry, 25 March 2017

Obituary, Augusta Chronicle, 11 February 1992, page 5C, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 30957001; obituary of Henry L. Josey, Macon Telegraph, 3 December 1939, page 10; obituary of Mrs. Belle S. Josey, Sandersville Progress, 14 February 1952; gravestone at Langley Cemetery

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