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John Slavens, Jr. (Mercer County school teacher)

b. 1834?

Mercer County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Son of John Slavens and Sophia Slavens. Resident of Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Resident of Mercer County in 1860. Household owned three enslaved persons in Harrodsburg in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 274B.
_ Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 8.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 2.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Mercer County, Precinct 5, p. 19.

Citation

Slavens, John, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200966 (November 12, 2026).

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