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William Howell Edmunds (Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and state representative)

b. 1815? d. 1862-10-21

Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and state representative. North Carolina native. Married to Mary R. Cameron Edmunds in Orange County, North Carolina, in April 1839. Father of Eliza Edmunds, Charles Edmunds, Augustus Edmunds, William Edmunds, and Mary Edmunds. Attorney in Princeton, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860. Judge in Caldwell County. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Caldwell County until 1862. Killed by guerilla conflict aboard the steamer Nashville in 1862.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 49.

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

Berry F. Craig, "The Jackson Purchase Considers Secession: The 1861 Mayfield Convention," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 99, no. 4 (Autumn 2001), p. 352-53.

North Carolina Marriage Bonds - Abstracts (1781-1868), North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, RG 048, Orange County Marriage Bonds, p. 127.

"William Howell Edmunds (1815-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial #169764362, accessed March 29, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169764362.

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Edmunds, William Howell. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198888 (November 12, 2026).

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