William Fairleigh

Birth Date

1797

Death Date

1865

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Meade County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Enlows Fairleigh in Hardin County, Kentucky, on November 4, 1819. Father of James S. Fairleigh, Clinton Fairleigh, Robert M. Fairleigh, Thomas Brooks Fairleigh, and John S. Fairleigh. Clerk of court in Meade County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Meade County in 1850. Circuit court clerk in Meade County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Meade County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky District, p. 208B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky District.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Brandenburg, p. 370.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Brandenburg, p. 28A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hardin County Marriages, 1793-1862, Film 000390788, p. 94-5.
“William Fairleigh (1797-1865)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78774679, accessed January 7, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78774679.

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