Person

David Fitzgerald (Henry County, Kentucky, tailor, jailer, and merchant.)

b. 1813?

Henry County, Kentucky, tailor, jailer, and merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah D. Stewart Fitzgerald. Father of John A. Fitzgerald, Sarah D. Fitzgerald, Lucretia C. Fitzgerald, Henry G. Fitzgerald, Joseph B. Fitzgerald, and Winfield Fitzgerald. Tailor in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Henry County in 1850. Jailer in Henry County. Merchant in Henry County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Henry County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1, p. 364A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 242.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 198B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994038, Henry County Births.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Begun and Held in the Town of Frankfort, on Monday, the Second Day of September, in the Year of Our Lord 1861, and of the Commonwealth the Seventh (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, 1861), 250.

Citation

Fitzgerald, David. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201222 (November 12, 2026).

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