Person

David Yancy Lyttle (Clay County, Kentucky, attorney.)

b. 1821 d. 1907

Clay County, Kentucky, attorney. Lee County, Virginia, native. Married to Drusilla Posey Brittain Lyttle. Father of George B. Lyttle, Dale C. Lyttle, Carlo B. Lyttle, Nancy E. Lyttle, John James Lyttle, Sally Lyttle, and Lee Lyttle. Attorney in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Harlan County in 1850. Attorney in Clay County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Clay County in 1860. Served in the Kentucky Home Guard (U.S.A.) as colonel.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harlan County, District 1, p. 25A.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clay County, p. 89.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clay County, p. 350A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clay County, District 32, Precinct 1, p. 154B.

Eleventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1890), Special Schedules of Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Veterans of the Civil War, Kentucky, Clay County, Manchester.

Charles Kerr, William Elsley Connelley, and E.M. Coulter, History of Kentucky, Volume 5 (Chicago: American Historical Society Press, 1922), p. 451.

Citation

Lyttle, David Yancy. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200419 (November 12, 2026).

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