Curtis Jett

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c1818

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c1878

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"Curtis Jett" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00001038, (accessed April 26, 2024).

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Breathitt County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, and soldier. Perry County, Kentucky, native. Married to Nancy Bryant Jett. Father of Malvre Jett, Ellen Jett, Jett Jett, Eliza J. Jett, Stephen Jett, Hiram Jett, Curtis Jett, Jr., Sarah Jett, Samuel Jett, Babe Jett, Nancy Jett, and Shelby Jett. Farmer and merchant in Breathitt County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Breathitt County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Breathitt County in 1864. Served in the Three Forks Infantry Battalion (U.S.A) as a private in July 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Breathitt, District 1, p. 34A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Breathitt, District 1, p. 9. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Breathitt, District 1, p. 174A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, Precinct No. 7, p. 446A. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 790. Find A Grave, "Curtis Jett (1818-1878)," Memorial #40640513, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40640513 (accessed March 23, 2017). KYR-0001-007-0308.

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