William Bailey Tyler

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1819

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1877-11-23

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White

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"William Bailey Tyler" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00013709, (accessed July 30, 2025).

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Daviess County, Kentucky, merchant. Virginia native. Married to Eliza Nicholas Hawes Tyler in 1850. Father of Edwin H. Tyler, Charles R. Tyler, Cary A. Tyler, Annie H. Tyler, and Ceedia C. Tyler, Gustavus B. Tyler, and Clary H. Tyler. Merchant in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Owensboro in 1850. Merchant in Owensboro in 1860. Employed David M. Allen as a merchant and M. P. Dorsey as a clerk in Owensboro in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons and an additional six enslaved persons through an agent in Owensboro in 1860. Household owned an additional four enslaved persons in Owensboro in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, p. 348A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, District, p. 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, District 2, p. 946.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, District 2, p. 1.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, District 2, p. 278B.
Alice Louise McDuffie, Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 101 (Washington, D.C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1928), 222.
Find A Grave, "Dr William Bailey Tyler (1819-1877)," Memorial #65749224, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65749224 (accessed November 12, 2020).

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