Wormley Sorrell Gibbs

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1799-11-13

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1894-06-13

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"Wormley Sorrell Gibbs" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00003693, (accessed September 22, 2023).

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Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Virginia native. Married to Mary Gibbs. Father of James Gibbs and Ophelia Gibbs. Justice of the peace in Hancock County in 1847. Owned five enslaved persons in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in 1860. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860. Sheriff of Hancock County in 1858 and 1860. Member of the Masonic Order at Hancock Lodge, No. 115 in Hawesville, Kentucky.

Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of kentucky, at a Grand Annual Communication, in the City of Louisville, Commencing on Monday, the 21st Day of October, 1867 (Frankfort, Ky.: Frankfort Commonwealth, 1867), 111-112.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 94.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 8-9.
The Kentucky State Register, for the year 1847 (Louisville: Morton & Griswold, 1847), 93.

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