Martin Van Buren Griffey

Metadata
Citation
Documents
Download

Birth Date

1837

Death Date

1909-03-27

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

"Martin Van Buren Griffey" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00013438, (accessed October 30, 2025).

Download XML

Hickman County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas Griffey and Elizabeth Griffey. Student in Hickman County in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Hickman County in 1850. Farmer in Hickman County in 1860. Household owned five enslaved persons in Hickman County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, pp. 23A-B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, p. 668.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Moscow, p. 452.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Moscow, p. 204A.
Find A Grave, "Martin Van Buren Griffey (1837-1909)," Memorial #144541284, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144541284 (accessed September 9, 2020).

Civil War Governors of Kentucky is always evolving. Help us improve the edition by suggesting a correction or addition to this record.

Suggest a correction