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Napoleon B. Stephens (Kenton County, Kentucky, county and circuit clerk)

b. 1814-08-24 d. 1886-07-03

Kenton County, Kentucky, county and circuit clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Rebecca Stephens. Father of Mary Stephens, Statira Stephens, John Stephens, and Rachel Stephens. Clerk of Kenton County Court in Kenton County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Kenton County in 1850. Clerk of the Kenton Circuit Court in Kenton County from 1859 to 1861. Owned one enslaved person in Kenton County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, p. 134A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 4, p. 196.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 2.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 235A.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859,” in 1860 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 291.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860,” in 1861 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 357.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308.

Find A Grave, “Napoleon Bonaparte Stephens (1814-1886),” Memorial #89878564, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89878564 (accessed August 3, 2017).

Citation

Stephens, Napoleon B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199277 (November 12, 2026).

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