Person

William "Horace" Sandford (Owenton, Kentucky, sheriff and circuit court clerk)

b. 1820?

Owenton, Kentucky, sheriff and clerk. Virginia native. Married to Mary E. Branham Sandford in Gallatin County, Kentucky, on January 1, 1847. Father of Alfred B. Sandford and Joseph B. Sandford. Married to Fannie B. Sandford. Father of William H. Sandford. Sheriff in Owen County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Owen County in 1850. Clerk of the Owen Circuit Court from 1859 to 1866.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 223B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 223B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1, p. 160.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States(1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, Owenton, p. 17.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50.

John Livingston, Livingston's United States Law Register and Official Directory, (New York, 1859), p. 14.

Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Gallatin County Marriages, 1799-1914, Film #000509036, p. 200.

Citation

Sandford, William "Horace". Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200420 (November 12, 2026).

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