Joseph C. Sheffey

Photograph of

Joseph C. Sheffey

Date of photograph

~1900

Location of photograph

Unknown

Description

Full-length portrait of Joseph C. Sheffey wearing his jockey uniform.

Full-length portrait of Joseph C. Sheffey (25 September 1881-8 February 1959), the son of Daniel Henry Sheffey, Jr. (1844-1914) and Jane A. White (1860-1912), was born on 25 September 1881.

He married was married to Nannie E. Buford, and later, to Susan "Susie" Julia Roane.

Joseph C. Sheffey was a professional African American jockey in his young adulthood. He is pictured here wearing his winter jockey silks. He was known to have jockeyed in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and New Jersey. While he lived in Virginia, New Jersey and New York over the course of his life, he passed in 1959 in his native Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia, United States

Type

Photograph

Format

JPG

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Donated By

The family of Joseph C. Sheffey, Jr. and Barbara Ann Turner