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William Grainger Blount (Graves County, Kentucky, attorney and postmaster.)

b. 1821-10-15 d. 1898-02-27

Graves County, Kentucky, attorney and postmaster. Tennessee native. Married to Marjorie Edens Blount. Father of Mary "Kate" Katherine Blount, James Richard Blount, Annie Blount, William Blount, Percy D. Blount, and Martha Blount. Attorney in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1850. Postmaster general of Maysfield from July 5, 1851, to December 30, 1853. Attorney in Graves County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Graves County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District No. 2, p. 201.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 331.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 53A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 218A.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Graves County, Kentucky, vol. 14, p. 626.

Texas Death Certificates, 1903-1982, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX, File #2929.

"Judge W.G. Blount (1821-1896)," Find A Grave, Memorial #49280401, accessed March X, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49280401/w.-g.-blount.

Citation

Blount, William Grainger. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201367 (November 12, 2026).

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