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Sidney Smith Grimes (Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer and physician)

b. 1806-07-03

Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer and physician. Kentucky native. Son of Charles Grimes and Jane Winn Grimes. Married to Lydia “Jane” Ann Gess McCann on November 20, 1834. Farmer in Fayette County in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Physician in Fayette County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 239B

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Athens, p. 450.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 10A

Alabama Surname Files, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama, Film M84-4746.

Citation

Grimes, Sidney Smith. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200445 (November 12, 2026).

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