Robert G. Beverley

Birth Date

1816

Death Date

1901

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer and grocery merchant. Virginia native. Son of William Beverley and Sarah Ann Posey Beverley. Married to Sarah P. Hopkins Beverley in Henderson County, Kentucky, on May 14, 1835. Father of John P. Beverley, Bettie Beverley, George B. Beverley, Philip N. Beverley, Robert G. Beverley, Alexander Beverley, Bland Beverley, William W. Beverley, and Minnie G. Beverley. Farmer and merchant in Henderson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1850. Owned Ellis [Unknown], Jackson [Unknown], and Seth [Unknown] in Henderson County in 1855. Grocery merchant in Henderson County in 1860. Owned thirty-nine enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1, p. 273A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 38.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 157B.
Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994038, Henderson County Births.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, X County Marriages, Film 000576460.
Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. CII: 1928, p. 257.
"Robert Gaines Beverley (1816-1901)," Find A Grave, Memorial 89877570, accessed July 20, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89877570.

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