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James. H. Fife (Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

b. 1818? d. 1862

Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Jane Fife. Father of John W. Fife, Henry H. Fife, James B. Fife, and Mary C. Fife. Farmer in Hardin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Boyle County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Boyle County in 1862.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Southern District 2, p. 402A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 979.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 162A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, Pike County, Spencer, p. 207A.

KYR-0001-031-0065.

Citation

Fife, James. H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196703 (November 12, 2026).

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