Benjamin F. Edwards

Birth Date

c1808

Death Date

1868-02

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Martha Berry Edwards in Nicholas County on November 3, 1836. Father of Laura J. Edwards, Sarah “Sallie” R. Edwards, Lucy E. Edwards, Martha A. Edwards, Charles Wickliffe Edwards, and Harlan Berry Edwards. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1850. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1860. Household owned an additional two enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 460B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 275.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 310.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 138A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film #000252392, p. 165.
Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Nicholas County Administrator Bonds, 1854-1969, p. 339 of microfilm (accessed through Ancestry.com).

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