Sylvanus Clark Bascom, Jr.

Birth Date

1843-01-23

Death Date

1909-10-17

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bath County, Kentucky, student and clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Sylvanus Clark Bascom, Sr. and Mary Nicholas Owings Bascom. Attended school in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned three enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Clerk in Bath County in 1860. Household owned two enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 2, p. 2B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 2, p. 298.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 74A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 68B.
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. 159: 1920, p. 156.
"Sylvanus Clarke Bascom (1843-1909)," Find A Grave, Memorial 45091391, accessed September 26, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45091391.

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