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Mordecai Levi (Louisville, Kentucky, blacksmith and horse trader)

b. 1821? d. 1877-11-09

Louisville, Kentucky, blacksmith and horse trader. Kentucky native. Married to Rebecca Conrad Levi in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on January 23, 1845. Father of Thomas Levi. Blacksmith in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Horse trader in Louisville in 1858. Horse trader in Louisville in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Horse trader in Louisville in 1861. Horse trader in Louisville in 1865.

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 304A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 664.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 288B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 11, p. 468B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000817889.

Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 107.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 150.

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 405.

Citation

Levi, Mordecai. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198744 (November 12, 2026).

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