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Rodolphus B. Ratliff (Caldwell County, KY, gunsmith, farmer, and sheriff)

b. 1818-11-10 d. 1907-04-12

Caldwell County, Kentucky, gunsmith, farmer, and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Mary J. Knight Ratliff in Bullitt County, Kentucky, on April 16, 1846. Father of Albert Ratliff, George Ratliff, Charlie Ratliff, Willie Ratliff, J. H. Ratliff, and L. E. Ratliff. Gunsmith in Caldwell County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1860. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1860. Sheriff of Caldwell County in 1862.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, 343B.


Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States(1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, 779-80.


Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Caldwell County, Princeton Division, p. 23.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Caldwell County, Princeton Division, p. 224A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 520A-B.

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 600-01.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bullitt County Marriages, Film #000482690, p. 169.

“Rodolphus Buche Ratliff (1818-1907),” Find A Grave, Memorial #18481014, accessed May 16, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18481014.

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Ratliff, Rodolphus B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198540 (November 12, 2026).

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