Reuben Harper

Birth Date

1829

Death Date

1911

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bath County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John Harper and Mary Harper. Married to Prudence Steele Harper in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1851. Father of John Harper and Jeptha Harper. Resident of Bath County in 1850. Household owned eight enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Farmer in Bath County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860. Farmer in Bath County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 109A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 9.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 75B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Sharpsburg Precinct, p. 77B.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Bath County, KY, October 1863, p. 71.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film 000273005.
"Reuben Harper (1829-1911)," Find A Grave, Memorial 32317312, accessed February 20, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32317312.

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