John Crepps Wickliffe

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1830-06-11

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1913

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"John Crepps Wickliffe" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00010237, (accessed May 4, 2024).

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Nelson County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and soldier. Nelson County, Kentucky, native. Son of Charles A. Wickliffe and Margaret Crepps Wickliffe. Married to Eleanor Wickliffe on November 2, 1853. Father of John C. Wickliffe, Charles A. Wickliffe, Mary Wickliffe, Margaret Wickliffe, and Ellenor Wickliffe. Attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Law student in Nelson County in 1850. Household owned twenty-five enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1853. Attorney in Nelson County. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1857 to 1859. Secretary of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1859. Employed [Unknown] Leeman as a gardener and Ellen McTaggart as a nurse in Nelson County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as captain from October 2, 1861, to May 1862; major from May 1862 to April 22, 1863; and lieutenant colonel from April 22, 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 335B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 265.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 96.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 18.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown, p. 70B.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Nelson County Birth Records, 1854, p. 3.
_Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 135.
Find A Grave, "Col John Crepps Wickliffe (1830-1913)," Memorial 98806228, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98806228 (accessed April 9, 2020).
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 131-32.
Edwin Porter Thompson, History of the First Kentucky Brigade (Cincinnati: Caxton Publishing House, 1868), 439-443.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1882), 645.

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