Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Berthena Wall Humphries and Absalom Humphries. Married to Mary Jane Williams Humphries in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on September 7, 1843. Farmer in Trigg County in 1850. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1850.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 310A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 247.

Find A Grave, "Berthena Humphries (1776-1851)," Memorial #49457029, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49457029 (accessed March 8, 2021).

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482707.

Citation

Humphries, William S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199492 (November 12, 2026).

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Petition
T. G. Cofer et al. to Beriah Magoffin
1861-01-22

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