Taylor W. Samuels

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1821-01-09

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1898-01-26

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"Taylor W. Samuels" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00010349, (accessed May 3, 2024).

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Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer, distiller, and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Lavinia Osburn Samuels in Nelson County on January 2, 1845. Father of William J. Samuels, Thomas B. Samuels, Robert Beamis Samuels, Mary Catherine Samuels, and John Samuels. Founded a commercial distillery in Deatsville, Kentucky, in 1844. Farmer in Nelson County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Farmer in Nelson County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860. Sheriff in Nelson County in 1861. Farmer in Nelson County in 1863. Distiller in Nelson County in 1865. Sheriff in Nelson County in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 310A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 183, p. 19 of microfilm.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 87.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 135A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Precinct 9, p. 57A-57B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film # 000481488, p.113.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994027-994058: Nelson County Births, p. 8.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Kentucky, 4th Congressional District, Vol. 3, 1863, p. 171, p. 173 of microfilm, (Accessed via ancestry.com on May 5, 2020).
Find A Grave, "Taylor W. Samuels (1821-1898)," Memorial #6876156 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6876156/taylor-w-samuels (accessed February 16, 2019).
_Find A Grave, "Robert Beamis Samuels (1850-1878)," Memorial #6876167, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6876167/robert-beamis-samuels (accessed February 16, 2019).
John C. Tramazzo, _ Bourbon and Bullets: True Stories of Whiskey, War, and Military Service_ (Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2018), 6.

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