Person

Reuben Harper (Bath County, Kentucky, farmer.)

b. 1829 d. 1911

Bath County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John Harper and Mary Harper. Married to Prudence Steele Harper in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1851. Father of John Harper and Jeptha Harper. Resident of Bath County in 1850. Household owned eight enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Farmer in Bath County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860. Farmer in Bath County in 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 109A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 9.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 75B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Sharpsburg Precinct, p. 77B.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Bath County, KY, October 1863, p. 71.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film 000273005.

"Reuben Harper (1829-1911)," Find A Grave, Memorial 32317312, accessed February 20, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32317312.

Citation

Harper, Reuben. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198271 (November 12, 2026).

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