Boucher, Joshua (1),
a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in West Virginia, Oct. 23, 1782. He experienced religion in 1806, served some time as class-leader and exhorter, received license to preach in 1811, and in 1813 entered the Tennessee Conference. With the exception of two years as supernumerary, he did active work until the time of his decease, Aug. 23, 1845. He was solicitous, generous, cheerful, and deeply pious. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church South, 1845, p. 19.