Richard S. Ferguson

Birth Date

c1812

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer and judge. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth H. Chrisman Ferguson. Father of Elizabeth G. Ferguson, Richard Ferguson, Hector Chrisman Ferguson, William G. Ferguson, and Margaret Ferguson. Farmer in Jessamine County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Jessamine County, Kentucky, in 1850. Presiding judge in Jessamine County from 1862 to 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 2, p. 69A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 2, p. 68.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 145.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 304.
Kentucky Birth Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994042, Jessamine County Births, p. 2.
Kentucky Birth Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994042, Jessamine County Births, p. 371.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #21695.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #21757.
KYR-0001-031-0049.

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