Person

Josephus Brown (Harrison County, Kentucky, overseer and famer )

b. 1828?

Harrison County, Kentucky, overseer and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Martha Jane Barnett Brown in Harrison County, Kentucky, on November 12, 1850. Father of Mary Brown and James Brown. Overseer in Harrison County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Harrison County in 1850. Farmer in Harrison County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 147A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 406.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 503.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, Film #000216896.

Citation

Brown, Josephus. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198094 (November 12, 2026).

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