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William Cunningham Allen (Bath County, Kentucky, gentleman and farmer.)

b. 1820 d. 1891

Bath County, Kentucky, gentleman and farmer. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Son of Granville Allen and Jane Vivian Sanford Allen. Married to Isabella Barnes Allen in Bath County, Kentucky, on December 15, 1852. Father of Henrietta Allen, Blanch Allen, Francis Allen, and Malinda Allen. Gentleman in Bath County in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Farmer in Bath County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 2, p. 1A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 4.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 74A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 64B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994028, Bath County Births.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film 000216816.

Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. LXXXVII (Washington, D.C.: Judd & Detweiler, Inc., 1926), 72.

"William Cunningham Allen (1820-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial 115935013, accessed February 20, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115935013.

Citation

Allen, William Cunningham. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197160 (November 12, 2026).

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