Robert M. Davis

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1806-08-22

Death Date

1874-05-02

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White

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"Robert M. Davis" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00008578, (accessed April 25, 2024).

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Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and businessman. Tennessee native. Married to Sarah Ann Harris Davis in Mercer County in May 1845. Father of Jerusha M. Davis, Crittenden Davis, Kittie Davis, Sallie Davis, and Walter Davis. Commissioner of company to turnpike a road from Harrodsburg, Kentucky, to Cane Run Meeting House in 1849. Owned thirty-two enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Owned twenty-seven enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1860. Member of the board of directors of Harrodsburg Savings Institution in 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 862-63.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 746.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 55A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film #000191854, p. 126.
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at the December Session, 1848 (Frankfort, KY: A.G. Hodges and Co., State Printers, 1849), 443.
Find A Grave, "Robert M. Davis (1806-1874)," Memorial #100143685, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100143685/robert-m.-davis (Accessed April 24, 2018).
KYR-0002-225-0043.

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