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John H. Pierce (Clay County, Kentucky, student, teacher, and clerk)

b. 1838?

Clay County, Kentucky, student, teacher, and clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas Pierce and Nancy Hibbard Pierce. Student in Knox County, Kentucky, in 1850. Teacher in Clay County in 1860. Household held one enslaved person in trust for [Unknown] [Unknown] in Clay County in 1860. Clerk in Clay County in 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, p. 389B-390A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clay County, p. 113.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, X County, p. 350A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Kirksville, p. 186A.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 23310.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Clay County, KY, June 1863, p. 279.

Citation

Pierce, John H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198715 (November 12, 2026).

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