James M. Posey

Birth Date

1832

Death Date

1907

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Anderson County, Kentucky, attorney. Anderson County native. Married to Lorinda Montfort Posey. Father of Mary W. Posey, William Horace Posey, Owen Breckinridge Posey, Lucretia Posey, James Albert Posey, Eloise Posey, Edward M. Posey, Charles Rowland Posey, and Thomas H. Posey. Attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware. Attorney in Anderson County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Anderson County, p. 11.
William Elsey Connelley and Ellis Merton Coulter, History of Kentucky, vol. 5 (Chicago: American Historical Society, 1922), p. 180.

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