James A. Newton

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c1822

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1879-08

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White

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"James A. Newton" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00014541, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Caldwell County, Kentucky, schoolteacher and farmer. Tennessee native. Married to America Newton. Father of America Newton, Mary Newton, and James Newton. Schoolteacher in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Farmersville in 1860. Employed Polly Asher as domestic in Farmersville in 1860. Employed Joshua Stewart as a farm laborer in Farmersville in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Farmersville in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 296A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Farmersville, p. 128.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Farmersville, p. 210B.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Mortality Schedules, Tennessee, Carroll County, p. 169.

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