Person

David Rice Haggard (Colonel 5th Ky Cavalry; Cumberland Co, KY, physician and farmer)

b. 1817? d. 1887-04-29

Cumberland County, Kentucky, physician, farmer, businessman, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Jane M. Haggard. Father of Ben Rice Haggard, Thomas P. Haggard, Henry B. Haggard, Mary B. Haggard, Clarence R. Haggard, and Irene S. Haggard. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Cumberland County, Kentucky, from 1844 to 1847. Physician in Cumberland County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in 1850. Assistant marshal of the slave census of the Cumberland Division in 1850. Farmer and physician in Cumberland County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Cumberland County in 1860. Served in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from January 1862 to February 1863. President of the Indian Creek and Jack's Knob, Iron, Coal, Salt, Lead, Lumber, Oil, and Manufacturing Company in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland Division, p. 345A.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, District No. 2, p. 581.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, District No. 2, p. 370A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Burkesville, pp. 4A-B.

"An Act to incorporate the Indian Creek and Jack's Knob Iron, Coal, Salt, Lead, Lumber, and Oil Manufacturing Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 78-80.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 108-9.

"Col David Rice Haggard (1817-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial 95439725, accessed December 4, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95439725.

Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue–Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014), 161-162.

Citation

Haggard, David Rice. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201170 (November 12, 2026).

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