Kenaz F. Hargis

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c1835

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"Kenaz F. Hargis" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00008434, (accessed November 20, 2025).

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Owsley County, Kentucky, trader and attorney. Son of John Hargis and Elizabeth Weddlington Hargis. Married to Elizabeth A. McGlassin Hargis on February 19, 1857. Father of Amanda H. Hargis. Student in Jackson, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned three enslaved persons in Breathitt County, Kentucky, in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1856. Merchant with W. P. Hill until c1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Owsley County in 1860. Trader in Owsley County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District 1, p. 18A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owsley County, p. 375.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Owsley County, p. 187A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lee County, Beattyville, p. 314A.
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 845-46.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Owsley County, KY, August 1863, p. 154, p. 157 of 210 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Find A Grave, “Kenaz F Hargis (1832-1888)," Memorial # 106861280, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106861280/kenaz-f-hargis (accessed February 18, 2021).

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