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William Dawson (Nelson County, Kentucky, cooper)

b. 1828?

Nelson County, Kentucky, cooper. Kentucky native. Son of John "Jack" Dawson and Eliza Ice Dawson. Married to Helen Burch Dawson in LaRue County, Kentucky, on December 4, 1854. Father of Charles Dawson, Anna Dawson, and Elizabeth Dawson. Cooper with John W. Dawson in Nelson County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860. Cooper in Nelson County in 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 110.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 104A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, New Haven, p. 173B.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Nelson County, KY, August 1863, p. 129.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, LaRue County Marriages, 1843-1893, Film #000409559.

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, Fourth Edition (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 837-38.

KYR-0001-004-0014.

Citation

Dawson, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197426 (November 12, 2026).

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