Person

Dolphin C. Mitchell (Hopkins/Webster County, Kentucky, farmer.)

b. 1823-04-15 d. 1892-11-06

Hopkins and Webster County, Kentucky, farmer. North Carolina native. Married to Rebecca Chandler Mitchell. Father of Washington Mitchell, James Mitchell, Susan Mitchell, Mary Mitchell, William Mitchell, Dolphin Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell, and Powell Mitchell. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Webster County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Webster County in 1860. Farmer in Webster County in 1863.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 138B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 605.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 435.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, District 4, p. 232A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Webster County, KY, June 1863, p. 14.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #11704.

Webster County Historical and Genealogical Society, Webster County Cemeteries: Book One, (1981), 37.

Citation

Mitchell, Dolphin C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196972 (November 12, 2026).

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