John W. Pruett

Birth Date

1816-01-21

Death Date

1864-07-07

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Franklin County, Kentucky, tailor, printer, and sergeant-at-arms. Kentucky native. Married to Amaryllis A. Conover Pruett in Fayette County, Kentucky, on May 29, 1839. Father of James Pruett, John W. Pruett, Walter Pruett, and Emma Pruett. Merchant tailor in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Franklin County in 1850. Constable in Frankfort in 1854. Printer in Frankfort in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Frankfort in 1860. Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate of Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861 through 1863. Constable in Frankfort from 1862 to 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 76B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 899.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 234.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 488A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Fayette County Marriages, Film 007897101.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994034, Franklin County Births.
Untitled, Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 2 Dec 1862, p. 1.
"Kentucky Legislature," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 5 March 1863, p. 3.
Untitled, Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 22 April 1863, p. 3.
L.F. Johnson, The History of Franklin County, Ky., (Frankfort: Roberts Printing Co., 1912), p. 138.
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies ser. 2, vol. 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1890), 748.
"John W. Pruett (1816-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial #126775790, accessed April 20, 2018, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126775790.

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