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Michael Eison (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1837-01-08 d. 1918-07-19

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John Eison and Martha Eison. Married to Virginia A. Williamson Eison in Montgomery County, Tennessee, on November 29, 1857. Father of Fannie Eison and J. J. Eison. Student in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1860. Household owned four enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 285B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 61.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 221B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 478B.

Tennessee State Marriages, 1778-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, Montgomery County Marriages, p. 48.

"Michael Eison (1837-1918)," Memorial #131726409, Find A Grave, accessed May 10, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131726409.

Citation

Eison, Michael. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197750 (November 12, 2026).

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