James Ray Piper

Birth Date

1808-04-05

Death Date

1897-06-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of James Piper and Catherine Piper. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1850. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1860. Owned an additional three enslaved persons for the Riley heirs in Nicholas County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 402B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 5 of 11.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 350.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 140B.
Find A Grave, "James R. Piper (1808-1897)," Memorial #114152450, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114152450 (accessed April 29, 2020).

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