John Buckner Lendrum

Birth Date

1804

Death Date

1878-05-27

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, city clerk, bookkeeper, and politician. Virginia native. Son of Thomas Keith Lendrum and Margaret Stokes Lendrum. Married to Elizabeth Lendrum. Father of Thomas W. Lendrum, Harry S. Lendrum, and Lillie H. Lendrum. City clerk in Covington, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Kenton County in 1850. Bookkeeper in Covington in 1860. Employed Jane Blackburn and Frank Garrish as servants in Kenton County in 1860. Mayor of Covington in 1862. Justice of the peace in Kenton County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 3, p. 256A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 1, p. 510.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 2, p. 359B.
"Covington News," Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Oh.), November 15, 1862, p. 3.
"Deaths," Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Oh.), May 27, 1878, p. 5.
Williams & Co, Williams' Covington and Newport Directory for 1866-67 (Covington, KY, 1866), 129.
"John Buckner Lendrum (1804-1878)," Find A Grave, Memorial 141255558, accessed March 31, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141255558.
"Elizabeth Hudson Rudd Lendrum (1821-1880)," Find A Grave, Memorial 141255519, accessed March 31, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141255519.
KYR-0001-004-0041.

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