Person

Wesley Taylor (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant)

b. 1806 d. 1885

Bath County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Taylor. Father of Ann Elizabeth Taylor, Lewis P. Taylor, William Z. Taylor, and Nannie Taylor. Merchant in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Merchant in Bath County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

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

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. 8.

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

"Wesley Taylor (1806-1885)," Find A Grave, Memorial 92835931, accessed September 25, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92835931.

Citation

Taylor, Wesley. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197653 (November 12, 2026).

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