Person

Columbus Ashby (Hopkins County, Kentucky, clerk)

b. 1830? d. 1862?

Hopkins County, Kentucky, clerk. Kentucky native. Son of John Ashby and America Ashby. Married to Mary H. Cox Ashby. Father of Mary H. Ashby. Clerk in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Resident of Hopkins County in 1862.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 159A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 733.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994039, Hopkins County Births, p. 7.

Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Hopkins County Administrators Bonds, 1859-1877, p. 169.

Citation

Ashby, Columbus. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199938 (November 12, 2026).

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