Ebenezer C. Guest

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Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Butler county, Kentucky, merchant and postmaster. New York native. Married to Ester M. Evans Guest in Robertson County, Tennessee, on October 20, 1843. Father of Elenor Guest, Henry C. Guest, and Laurie Guest. Merchant in Butler County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Butler County in 1850. Postmaster of Rochester in Butler County from June 25, 1850 to August 27, 1853. Merchant in Butler County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Butler County in 1860. Assigned arms by the military board of Kentucky as a member of the infantry.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Butler County, p. 225B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Butler County, p. 737.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Butler County, Rochester, p. 1010.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bulter County, Woodbury, p. 10.
"Ebenezer Catlin Guest (1815-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial #107051170, accessed March 3, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107051170.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Butler County, Kentucky, vol. 14, p. 574-75.
Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Robertson County, 1878 Dec-1886 Nov: Marriages 5-8, p. 86-87 [incorrectly labeled, dates of records actually 1839 Oct-1878 Dec]
KYR-0001-019-0144.

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