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Jonathan Newcum (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, attorney and politician)

b. 1820-05-15 d. 1862-11-23

Rockcastle County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Rockcastle County, Kentucky, native. Married to Lucy Chesnut Newcum. Father of Charlotte S. Newcum, Artemesia Newcum, and James G. Newcum. Deputy sheriff of Rockcastle County, Kentucky, in 1847. Delegate to the Kentucky Constitutional Convention of 1849 from Laurel and Rockcastle counties. Attorney in Rockcastle County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Rockcastle County from 1857 to 1859. Attorney in Rockcastle County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Rockcastle County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rockcastle County, Northern District, p. 210A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rockcastle County, p. 579.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Rockcastle County, p. 206A.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 21019.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. I (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 367.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. II (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 691.

Taliaferro P. Shaffner, The Kentucky State Register for the Year 1847 (Louisville, KY: Morton & Griswold, 1847), 149.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges, Public Printer, 1857), 429.

"Jonathan Newcum (1820-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial 5997874, accessed September 26, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5997874.

Citation

Newcum, Jonathan. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197863 (November 12, 2026).

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