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Green Sterett (Hancock County, KY, physician)

b. 1811?

Hancock County, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Son of John Sterett and Sallie DeHaven Sterett. Married Celestia Sterett. Father of John Sterett, Charles Sterett, William L. Sterett, and Jennie Sterett. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hancock County, Kentucky, from 1851 to 1853 and from 1857 to 1859. Physician in Hancock County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 94.


Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 8.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 2.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 305.

J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 2nd ed. (Louisville: F. A. Battey Publishing, 1885), 757-78.

Citation

Sterett, Green. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198449 (November 12, 2026).

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