Travis, Joseph, 1786-1858
Biography
Rev. Joseph Travis (1786-1858) was born in Harford County, Maryland. He was the son of Robert and
Phebe L’Estrange Travis. Travis became a Methodist minister in 1806 and served North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. He published "Autobiography of the
Rev. Joseph Travis, A.M., a member of the Memphis Annual Conference: embracing a succinct history
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, particularly in part of western Virginia, the Carolinas,
Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi: with short memoirs of several local preachers, and an address to
his friends" (Nashville, TN: E. Stevenson and J.E. Evans, Agents, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1856).
In 1811, Travis married Elizabeth Forster (d. 1843). In 1845, he married Mary Smith Butler.