Benjamin Franklin Pullen

Birth Date

c1825

Death Date

1885-04-13

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bourbon County, Kentucky, sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth F. Pullen. Father of Paulina W. Pullen, Elizabeth A. Pullen, and Minnie F. Pullen. Sheriff in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1858. Sheriff of Bourbon County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 485.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 140B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, Ward 1, p. 422A.
"Bourbon County--Official," The Louisville Daily Courier, August 05, 1858, p. 2.
"Death by Laudanum," The Courier-Journal, April 14, 1885, p. 4.
"Unfortunate Controversy in the Tenth Judicial District," The Louisville Daily Courier, April 25, 1868, p. 2.
"Benjamin Franklin Pullen (1825-1885)," Find A Grave, Memorial 159935757, accessed June 28, 2018, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159935757.

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