Benedict Spalding

Birth Date

1783-06-10

Death Date

1870-02-25

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Marion County, Kentucky, farmer and legislator. St. Mary’s County, Maryland, native. Married to Eliza Elder Spalding in Washington County, Kentucky, on January 16, 1815. Married to Elizabeth McElroy Spalding in Floyd County, Indiana, on March 5, 1833. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Washington County in 1804, 1806, 1811 to 1812, 1812 to 1813, and 1835 to 1836. Farmer in Marion County in 1850. Farmer in Marion County in 1860. Employed Benedict Abell as a farmhand in Marion County in 1860. Senator for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 2, 1861, to June 5, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 1, p. 326A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, New Market, p. 573.
“Benedict Joseph Spalding III,” Find A Grave, Memorial #65445799, accessed September 9, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65445799
G. Glenn Clift, Biographical Directory of the Kentucky General Assembly, n.p., 1970.
Indiana Marriages (1811-2019), Indiana Commission on Public Records, Indianapolis, IN, Roll #000549329, Floyd County Marriages, p. 102.
Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 18, 102, 291.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Washington County Marriages, Film #000241382, p. 97.

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