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Joseph M. Bigger (Paducah attorney/judge)

b. 1824-09-20 d. 1888-06-11

McCracken County, Kentucky, attorney and judge of the Equity and Criminal Court. Simpson County, Kentucky native. Married to Frances N. Stephens Bigger in Fulton County on November 24, 1846. Judge of the Equity and Criminal Court in the First Judicial District from 1857 to 1867.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, District 2, p. 134.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Fulton County Marriages, Film #000321403, p. 30.

Z. F. Smith The History of Kentucky (Louisville: The Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1892), 789.

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Bigger, Joseph M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198164 (November 12, 2026).

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