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Willis Lovelace (Pendleton County, Kentucky, farmer. and postmaster)

b. 1811?

Pendleton County, Kentucky, farmer and postmaster. Kentucky native. Married to Julia A. Riddle Lovelace in Pendleton County, Kentucky, on February 6, 1834. Father of Sarah Lovelace, Nicholas Lovelace, Zackariah Lovelace, Andrew Jackson Lovelace, Mary A. Lovelace, and Paulina Lovelace. Farmer in Pendleton County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Pendleton County in 1850. Farmer in Pendleton County in 1860. Employed Nicholas Lovelace and Zackariah Lovelace as farm workers in Pendleton County in 1860. Postmaster of Elizabethville, Kentucky, from July 19, 1862, to May 16, 1866.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, District 2, p. 325A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, District 2, p. 455.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, p. 457.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Pendleton County Marriages, film #000272800, p. 214.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Pendleton County, Kentucky, vol. 28, p. 163, p. 424 of 579 of microfilm.

Find A Grave, “Willis Lovelace (1811-1874)," Memorial # 6441201, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16441201/willis-lovelace (accessed April 8, 2021).

Citation

Lovelace, Willis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198869 (November 12, 2026).

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