James Crockett Sayers

Birth Date

c1833

Death Date

c1876

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Kenton County, Kentucky, laborer, farmer, politician, and soldier. Kenton County native. Son of Henry Sayers and Elizabeth Sayers. Married to Mary C. Sayers. Father of J. Fenley Sayers, Eugene B. Sayers, Charlie W. Sayers, and William H. Sayers. Laborer in Kenton County in 1850. Family owned five enslaved persons in Kenton County in 1850. Farmer in Kenton County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Kenton County in 1860. Served in the 32nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster from August 1862 to December 1862. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Kenton County from 1863 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, p. 198A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, p. 114-5. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, District 1, p. 469. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, District 1, p. 319B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Stephenson Precinct, p. 319A. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0402. Paul H. Bergeron, et al., eds., The Papers of Andrew Johnson: August 1866--January 1867, vol. 11 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994), 265-66. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1882), 421. Find A Grave, "Lt. John Crockett Sayers (1832-1876)," Memorial #156243395, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156243395 (accessed May 17, 2017).

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