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George Taylor Fishback (Clark County, Kentucky, Farmer.)

b. 1812-10-15 d. 1888-07-30

Clark County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Louisa H. Patton on June 4, 1836. Father of William Patton Fishback, George McElroy Fishback, Anna M. Fishback, Violinda Fishback and Louvisa Fishback. Married to Mary Sumner on October 16, 1856. Farmer in Clark County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Clark County in 1850. Farmer in Clark County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860. Employed Laura Munson as a teacher in 1860.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 4B.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 822.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 338B.

Willis Miller Kemper, ed., Genealogy of the Fishback Family in America: The Descendants of John Fishback, the Emigrant, With an Historical Sketch of his Family and the Colony at Germanna and Germantown, Virginia: 1714-1914 (New York: Thomas Madison Taylor, publisher, 1914), 160.

Citation

Fishback, George Taylor. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198148 (November 12, 2026).

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