Person

Samuel C. Woodson (Hopkins Co., KY, merchant)

b. 1825-05-29 d. 1907-02-05

Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Rebecca Woodson. Father of Samuel Woodson, Jr., and Urey Woodson. Merchant in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Household owned an additional sixteen enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Merchant in Madisonville, Kentucky, in 1863.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 834.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 221A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Hopkins County, KY, September 1863, p. 47.

"Samuel Charles Woodson Sr. (1825-1907)," Find A Grave, Memorial #64096661, accessed October 16, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64096661.

Citation

Woodson, Samuel C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196953 (November 12, 2026).

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