William Sterett

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c1804

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"William Sterett" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00001810, (accessed July 4, 2025).

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Hancock County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth A. Sterett. Father of Charles J. Sterett, Patsy Sterett, Margaret Sterett, and William G. Sterett. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hancock County, Kentucky, from 1833 to 1834. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hancock County from 1840 to 1843 and in 1850. Attorney in Hancock County in 1850. Owned twenty-two enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1850. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860. Owned twenty-four enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County,
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, District, p. 40.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 3.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 305.

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