Joseph Hubbard Echols

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Joseph Hubbard Echols (born December 25, 1816 in Washington , Georgia , † September 23, 1885 in Lexington , Georgia) was an American plantation owner and politician . Little is known about his personal life. Echols was a Methodist . He married Martha Ellen Smith (1825-1885), daughter of Robert S. Smith (1787-1859). The couple had at least one child: Moina H. (* 1846). In 1861 he was a member of the Georgia Senate . Echols represented the sixth constituency of Georgia in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865 . He was also President of the Madison Female Academy in Georgia. After his death in 1885, he was buried in the cemetery of the Beth-Salem Presbyterian Church in Lexington.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martha Ellen Smith Echols in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 24, 2015.
  2. ^ Moina H. Echols Johnson in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ yearns Wilfred Buck: The Confederate Congress , University of Georgia Press, 2010, ISBN 9780820334769 , p 239

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personal data
SURNAME Echols, Joseph Hubbard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American plantation owner and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1885
Place of death Lexington , Georgia