Mcpherson, Joseph A

McPherson, Joseph A.

a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. was born in West Feliciana Parish, La.. Dec. 19. 1835; was educated at the Centenary College, Jackson, La. (class of 1853): spent several years in teaching; entered the Mississippi Conference in 1859, and was appointed to Bolivar Circuit; in 1860 he was transferred to Fort Adams Circuit, and died June 18,1861. He was a faithful and able minister of the Gospel, and the Church greatly lamented his early loss. — Conference Minutes of the M. E. Ch. South, 2:317.