Burdett Clifton Levi

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1819-09-21

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1887-08-05

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"Burdett Clifton Levi" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020493, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, barkeeper and steamboat agent. Mason County, Kentucky, native. Son of Willis Levi. Married to Hester A. Curry Levi on April 6, 1841. Married to Mary E. Gibbings Levi in Washington County, Kentucky, on April 3, 1844. Father of Marion C. Levi. Barkeeper in Louisville in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Steamboat agent in partnership with William E. Robinson and Emily A. Moorhead in Moorhead & Company in Louisville from 1858 to 1865. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 437B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 698.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 289A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 9, p. 247A.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths.
Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 11, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1862.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Washington County Marriages, Film 000551244.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Jefferson County, KY, July 1863, p. 146.
Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Jefferson County Wills, vol. 14-15, 1887-1889, p. 146-147.
"Copartnership," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), January 23, 1858, p. 4.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 178.
Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 405.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. I (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 494-5.
"Burdett Clifton Levi (1819-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial 142533869, accessed January 24, 2024, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142533869.

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