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James Spence (McCracken County, Kentucky, schoolteacher and county clerk)

b. 1825-05 d. 1901-04-11

McCracken County, Kentucky, schoolteacher and county clerk. North Carolina native. Son of Elizabeth Spence. Married to Nancy Jane Moore Spence in McCracken County, Kentucky, on April 15, 1852. Father of Albert H. Spence, Malcolm G. Spence, Medora Spence, Eugene Spence, and William Spence. Schoolteacher in McCracken County in 1850. Schoolteacher in McCracken County in 1860. Clerk of the McCracken County Court in McCracken County in 1862.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District 2, p. 183A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District 2, p. 838.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, p. 143B.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 303.

"Judge James Spence Dead," Kentucky Advocate (Danville, KY), April 12, 1901, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86373884/.

Kentucky Marriage Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994046, McCracken County Marriages, p. 1.

Citation

Spence, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197265 (November 12, 2026).

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