Ranson A. Dawson, Sr.

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1808-02-06

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1889-04-27

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"Ranson A. Dawson, Sr." in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00004913, (accessed November 11, 2025).

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Hart County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth L. Wright Dawson in 1833. Married to Martha A. S. Dawson. Father of Nancy A. Dawson, Sarah E. Dawson, Drury T. Dawson, Miles H. Dawson, John W. Dawson, Martha M. Dawson, and Ransom A. Dawson, Jr. Farmer in Hart County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in 1850 and eight in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, District 2, p. 124. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, District 2, p. 5. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, Munfordville, p. 33. Yate Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Ancestry, Kentucky, 1833. Find A Grave, "Ransom A. Dawson (1808-1889)," Memorial #43478844, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43478844/ransom-a-dawson (accessed May 2, 2017).

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