Farmer Dewees

Birth Date

1795-10-15

Death Date

1869-07-28

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Lexington, Kentucky, bank teller and gentleman. Woodford County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Dewees and Mary Coburn Dewees. Teller at the old branch of the United States Bank in Lexington. Teller at the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Lexington. Gentleman in Lexington in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 116.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 59.
Mrs. Philip E. LaMunyan, The Dewees Family: Genealogical Data, Biographical Facts and Historical Information (Norristown, PA: William H. Roberts, 1905), 105-06.
George W. Ranck, History of Lexington Kentucky: Its Early Annals and Recent Progress (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1872), 402-03.
Find A Grave, "Farmer Dewees (1795-1869)," Memorial #99746794, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99746794/farmer-dewees (accessed January 5, 2018).

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