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John Rausch Gheens (Jefferson County, KY, grocer & flour dealer)

b. 1834? d. 1918-06-08

Jefferson County, Kentucky, grocer and flour dealer. Kentucky native. Son of Matthew Gheen and Jane Gheen. Clerk in family grocery store in Louisville in 1850. Partner with Marshall Halbert in Louisville in 1859. Merchant in Louisville in 1860. Employed brother Charles Gheens as clerk in 1860. Signed a petition as a flour dealer in May 1861 to appoint W. G. Timberlake as flour inspector.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 1, p. 51A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 2, p. 468.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p.419A.

Henry Tanner, ed., The Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859-60 (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1859), 90.

U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1907, Presbyterian Historical Society; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Records of Lafayette Presbyterian Church, Baptisms, Births, Deaths, 1915 - 1930. New Orleans, Louisiana p. 114 of microfilm (accessed through ancestry.com on January 28, 2020).

“Widely Known Sugar Planter Passes Away,” Times Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, Saturday, June 8, 1918, accessed through Find-a-Grave January 28, 2020.

Find A Grave, "John Rausch Gheens (1819-1905)," Memorial 131309144, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131309144 (accessed January 28, 2020).

KYR-0001-017-0163.

Citation

Gheens, John Rausch. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201330 (November 12, 2026).

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