Jeremiah W. South

Birth Date

1805-07-10

Death Date

1880-04-15

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer and keeper of the state penitentiary. Kentucky native. Married to Mary M. South. Father of Eliza South, Ellen South, Samuel South, John South, Martin Van Buren South, Celia South, William T. B. South, James K. Polk South, Patsy South, Lewis Cass South, Moore South, Thomas I. South, Spicey South, and Narcissa South. Member of the Disciples of Christ. Justice of the peace in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for Breathitt County in 1840. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for Breathitt County from 1843 to 1847. Farmer in Breathitt County in 1850. Charter stockholder of the Lexington and Kentucky Railroad Company. Owned ten enslaved persons in Breathitt County in 1860. Keeper of the State Penitentiary of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Frankfort, Kentucky, from 1859 to 1863. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District No. 1, p. 33A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District No. 1, p. 31. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District No. 1, p. 116. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District No. 1, p. 26. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Forks of Elkhorn District, p. 23. William C. Sneed, A Report on the History and Mode of Management of the Kentucky Penitentiary from its Origin, in 1798, to March 1, 1860 (Frankfort: Senate of Kentucky, 1860), 553. Report of the Special Committee on the Penitentiary to the Senate of Kentucky, February 26, 1880, Legislative Document No. 18 (Frankfort: E. H. Porter, 1880). Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky (Louisville: Richard H. Collins, 1877), 772. T. R. C. Hutton, Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013), 24-26, 76, 141. Find A Grave, "Jeremiah Weldon 'Jere' South (1805-1880)," Memorial #7648523, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7648523/jeremiah-weldon-south (accessed January 24, 2018).

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