John Randolph Desha

Birth Date

1804-07-24

Death Date

1878-07-02

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Fayette County, Kentucky, physician. Mason County, Kentucky, native. Son of Joseph Holmes Desha and Margaret Bledsoe Desha. Married to Mary Bracken Curry Desha. Father of Ben Desha, Issa Desha Breckinridge, Adelaide Desha, Mary Desha, and Ella Desha. Physician in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Physician in Fayette County in 1860. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 189A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 577.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 518.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 464A.
Jay Guy Cisco, Historic Sumner County, Tennessee: With Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Gage, and Douglass Families, and Genealogical Notes of Other Sumner County Families (Nashville: Folk-Keelin Printing Company, 1909), 173, 178.
"John Randolph Desha (1804-1878)," Find A Grave, Memorial #15751437, accessed April 27, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15751437/john-randolph-desha.

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