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Jacob E. Sandusky (Sodowsky) (Shelby county farmer)

b. 1808-06-16 d. 1898-01-03

Shelby County, Kentucky, resident. Also known as Jacob E. Sodowsky. Jessamine County, Kentucky, native. Son of Ephraim Sandusky and Annie Evans Sandusky. Married Hannah Middleton Sandusky in Jessamine County on February 14, 1831. Father of George S. Sandusky, William B. Sandusky, Thomas C. Sandusky, Richard R. Sandusky, and Mary J. Sandusky.Purchased land in Clark County, Missouri, in 1835. Moved to Shelby County in 1836. Owned four enslaved people in Shelby County in 1850. Farmer in Shelby County in 1860. Owned six enslaved people in Shelby County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District No. 1; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District No. 1, p. 33; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District No. 1, p. 4; Walter Williams, History of Northwest Missouri vol. 2 (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1915), 702-704; W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 6th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 844-45; Find A Grave, "Jacob E. Sandusky (1808 - 1898)," Memorial #32833911, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32833911 (accessed September 28, 2017).

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Sandusky, Jacob E.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199190 (November 12, 2026).

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