William Smith

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c1815

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"William Smith" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00003495, (accessed April 4, 2025).

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Grant County, Kentucky, clerk and circuit court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah S. Smith. Father of Susan F. Smith, James P. Smith, and Mary A. Smith. Clerk in Williamstown, Kentucky in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Grant County in 1850. Clerk of the Grant Circuit Court in Grant County from 1860 to 1861. Owned nine enslaved persons in Grant County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 360B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 7.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 988.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 41A.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860,” in 1861 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 356.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308.

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