Joshua Barnes

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c1804

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"Joshua Barnes" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000222, (accessed April 4, 2025).

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Bath County, Kentucky, physician and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Lucretia Hord Barnes in Mason County, Kentucky, in May 1833. Father of Joseph Barnes, Isabella Barnes, Adelaide E. Barnes, William Robert Barnes, Lucretia Barnes, Joshua Barnes, and Mary Barnes. Married to Adelaide Hord Barnes. Physician in Bath County in 1850. Owned seventeen enslaved persons in 1850. Physician in Bath County in 1860. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1862 to 1865. Briefly abducted by the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) in Bath County in March 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 89B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 268.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 178.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 84B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, 1794-1852, Film #000281842.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1882), 46.
Steven L. Wright, ed., Kentucky Soldiers and their Regiments, vol. 3 (Utica, KY: McDowell Publications, 2009), 48.

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