Alfred Townes

Birth Date

1794

Death Date

1871

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer. North Carolina native. Married to Ann Maclin Townes. Father of Alfred V. Townes, Ann Eliza Townes, and William Townes. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 100B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 700.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 737.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p.216A.
"Alfred Townes (1794-1871)," Find A Grave, Memorial #60946892, accessed October 27, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60946892.

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