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John A. Y. Humphreys (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1802-07-07 d. 1873-03-19

Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer. Spotsylvania County, Virginia, native. Married to Martha Mays Humphreys in Nelson County on November 10, 1831. Married to Rebecca Delph Carpenter Humphreys in Nelson County on August 12, 1840. Father of Margaret Mildred Humphreys, John S. Humphreys, William T. Humphreys, Samuel C. Humphreys, and Thomas Jefferson Humphreys. Worked as a U. S. Commissioner in Nelson County in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in 1850. Farmer in Nelson County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 389A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 24 of microfilm.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 95.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 135B.

Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County, Film #000009669, p. 412.

Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County, Film # 001929414, p. 154.

Find A Grave, "John Alsop Yarbrough Humphreys (1802)-(1873),” Memorial # 89532788, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89532788, (accessed April 29, 2020).

Genealogical and Historical Notes of Culpeper County, Virginia, Raleigh Travers Green, Exponent Printing Office, Culpeper, VA, 1900, 92.

Citation

Humphreys, John A. Y.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200201 (November 12, 2026).

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