Person

Joshua Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1824-04-17 d. 1862-12-11

Garrard County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Nelson Burdett and America Letcher Samuel Burdett. Married to Edna W. Letcher Burdett in Garrard County on February 26, 1846. Father of William Burdett. Attorney in Garrard County in 1850. Attorney in Lancaster in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Lancaster, Kentucky, in 1860. Killed by James H. Smith in Garrard County on December 11, 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Division 2, p. 288B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard, Lancaster, p. 643.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 15A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film 000183256.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), , pp. 216-7..

"Joshua Burdett (1824-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial 90653933, accessed September 14, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90653933.

KYR-0001-005-0025.

Citation

Burdett, Joshua. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197119 (November 12, 2026).

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