Person

David P. Mears (Green County Farmer and)

b. 1816?

Green County, Kentucky, public servant and farmer. Farmer in Green County in 1860. Married to Elizabeht Mears. Father of John A. R. Mears, Mary A. Mears, Susan A. Mears, Antoinett Mears, Lucy T. Mears, and Joseph L. Mears. Owned three enslaved persons in Green County in 1860. Clerk of the Green County Court in Green County in 1859. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky representing Green County from 1861 to 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 58.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 9.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington: Collins & Company, 1878), 295.

The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives, Printed During the First Session of the Thirty-Sixth Congress, 1859-'60 (Washington, D.C.: Thomas H. Ford, Printer, 1860), 550-551.

Citation

Mears, David P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201182 (November 12, 2026).

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