Gideon Perry Jolly

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1822-02-07

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"Gideon Perry Jolly" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00005843, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Breckinridge County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk and county court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Nelson Jolly, Jr. and Barbara Jolly. Married to Eliza Beard Jolly in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, on September 25, 1856. Father of Bion Jolly, Nannie Jolly, Lula M Jolly, and Clara Jolly. Deputy sheriff of Breckinridge County from 1849 to 1851. Sheriff of Breckinridge County from 1851 to 1858. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Breckinridge County from 1855 to 1857. Clerk of the Breckinridge Circuit Court from 1856 to 1868. Clerk of the Breckinridge County Court from 1858 to 1866. Owned four enslaved persons in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge, District No. 1, p. 139A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge, District No. 1, p. 111.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge, District No. 1, p. 8-9.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge, Town of Hardinsburg, p. 5.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 772.
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 1066.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll 994027-994058, Breckinridge County Marriages, p. 1.
"Gideon Perry Jolly (1822-1894)," Find A Grave, Memorial 86712262, accessed June 4, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86712262.

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