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Samuel B. Pell (Hancock County, KY, farmer, politician, and sheriff)

b. 1796-10-25 d. 1864-08-01

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer, politician, and sheriff. Virginia native. Married to Sarah Pell. Father of Thomas J. Pell, W. C. Pell, and S. B. Pell, Jr. Sheriff of Hancock County in 1854. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hancock County from 1855 to 1857. One of the founders of the Lewisport Pond Draining Company in 1858. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860. Sheriff of Hancock County in 1864. Killed as a result of Confederate guerilla raids in Hancock County in August 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 983.

"An Act to Incorporate the Lewisport Pond Draining Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges, Public Printer, 1858), 234-38.

John Livingston, Livingston's Law Register: A Guide for Every Man of Business, and Hand-book of Useful Knowledge (New York: Office of the Monthly Law Magazine, 1854), 346.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins’ Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Collins & Company, 1878), 305.

"Samuel B. Pell (1796-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial #151489998, accessed March 29, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151489998.

KYR-0002-022-0041.

Citation

Pell, Samuel B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197542 (November 12, 2026).

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