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Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge (Lexington, Kentucky, resident)

b. 1826-08-18 d. 1907-10-08

Lexington, Kentucky, resident. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Married to John Cabell Breckinridge on December 12, 1843. Mother of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Frances Breckinridge, John Milton Breckinridge, John Witherspoon Breckinridge, and Mary Desha Breckinridge. Resident of Lexington in 1850 and 1860. Exiled in Canada in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 189B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, 4th Ward, Lexington, p. 108. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, 2nd Ward, Lexington, p. 105. James C. Klotter, The Breckinridges of Kentucky, 1760-1981 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986), 102, 123-124. Find A Grave, "Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge (1826-1907)," Memorial #8872592, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8872592/mary-cyrene-breckinridge (accessed January 17, 2018).

Citation

Breckinridge, Mary Cyrene Burch. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197280 (November 12, 2026).

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