Ephraim Whitesides

Birth Date

1815-09-14

Death Date

1886-01-23

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Frankfort, Kentucky, carpenter and assistant keeper of the penitentiary. Oldham County, Kentucky, native. Married to Martha Rankin Whitesides in Oldham County, Kentucky, on January 1, 1837. Father of Addie Whitesides, Neville Whitesides, and Allen Whitesides. Assistant keeper of the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, from 1851 to 1876. Carpenter in Oldham County, Kentucky, in 1850. Carpenter in Frankfort in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Frankfort in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 2, p. 109B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District, p. 275.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District 1, p. 492B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 137A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Oldham County Marriages, Film 000482442.
"Death of Mr. E. Whitesides," The Frankfort Roundabout (Frankfort, KY), January 30, 1886, p. 2.
"Ephraim Whitesides (1815-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial 57969701, accessed November 14, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57969701.

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