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Alexander H. Ashby (Hopkins County, Ky, blacksmith )

b. 1822?

Hopkins County, Kentucky, blacksmith. Kentucky native. Married to Catherine Whitsell Ashby. Father of Clarence A. Ashby and George Ashby. Blacksmith in Madisonville, Kentucky, in 1860. Employed Fannie Owsley as a house servant in Madisonville in 1860. Held one enslaved person in trust for Lizzie Whitsell in Madisonville in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 837.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 221B.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #39488.

Citation

Ashby, Alexander H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199692 (November 12, 2026).

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