THE J. M. SMUCKER COMPANY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that JAY L. HENDERSON, Director of The J. M.
Smucker Company (the ?Company?), hereby appoints Richard K. Smucker, Mark T.
Smucker, and Jeannette L. Knudsen, and each of them, with full power of
substitution, as attorneys or attorney of the undersigned, to sign and to
file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, all
pursuant to applicable legal provisions, with full power and authority to
do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be
done, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned officer might
or could do in person, in furtherance of the foregoing.  The undersigned
acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such
capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the
Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with
Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect
to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued
by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed
writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

/s/ Jay L. Henderson
JAY L. HENDERSON

Date:    August 17, 2016