Ambrose Portwood

Birth Date

1825-06-17

Death Date

1915-03-25

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, hotel keeper. Kentucky native. Married to Louisa Miller Portwood on December 23, 1848. Father of Armistead Portwood, John B. Portwood, Caleb D. Portwood, Willard C. Portwood, Emma R. Portwood, Jackson Portwood, and Lena H. Portwood. Hotel keeper in Harrodsburg in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Harrodsburg in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 11. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 3. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Anderson County, District 1, p. 38. Find A Grave, "Ambrose C Portwood (1825-1915)," Memorial #42759083, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42759083# (accessed September 1, 2018).

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