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Garland P. Cosby (Hopkins County and Webster County, Kentucky, physician)

b. 1822?

Hopkins County and Webster County, Kentucky, physician. Louisiana native. Married to Unity Cosby. Father of David H. Cosby, Kate Cosby, and Ellen L. Cosby. Physician in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Physician in Webster County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Webster County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 123A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 625.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 486B.

Citation

Cosby, Garland P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200704 (November 12, 2026).

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