Person

John Lewis (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1821? d. 1870-05

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Louisa Pennington Lewis in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on January 25, 1845. Father of Warren P. Lewis, William Lewis, Eugene Lewis, Frank Lewis, and Marion Lewis. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Princeton in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 389A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 42.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 220A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Mortality Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 177.

Kentucky Marriage RecordsMadison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000851644, p. 12.

Citation

Lewis, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198583 (November 12, 2026).

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