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Innis Wootton (Spencer County, Kentucky, blacksmith and guerrilla)

b. 1806? d. 1865?

Spencer County, Kentucky, blacksmith and guerrilla. Kentucky native. Married to Catharine Hansborogh Wootten on Feburary 5, 1829. Father of Susan Wootten, Isabella Wooten, Louisa Wooten. Blacksmith in Shelby County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1850. Master blacksmith near Taylorsville in 1860. Owned sixteen enlaved persons in Shelby County in 1860. Confederate guerrilla. Killed by Edwin Terrell, commander of the Independent Kentucky Scouts, in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District No. 1, p. 10.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District No. 1, p. 7.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, Taylorsville, p. 10.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District No. 2, p. 4.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, X County Marriages, Film #000482500.

Citation

Wootton, Innis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198208 (November 12, 2026).

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