Person

Michael O. Wade (Louisville, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, school trustee, and clerk)

b. 1810?

Louisville, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, school trustee, and clerk. Virginia native. Married to Mildred A. Cook Wade in Warren County, North Carolina, on June 13, 1837. Married to Martha A. Wells Wade in Bullitt County, Kentucky, on February 17, 1842. Father of Mildred A. Wade, Mary W. Wade, Josiah Wade, and W.W. Wade. Married to Mary Ashby Wade in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 23, 1857. Married to Sallie Hill Wade in Spencer County, Kentucky, on November 29, 1859. Father of Elizabeth Wade. Farmer in Bullitt County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Bullitt County in 1850. Merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. School trustee in Louisville in 1861. Clerk in Louisville in 1865.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bullitt County, p. 164A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bullitt County, p. 725.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 209.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 258A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Obion County, City/District 3, p. 86B.

North Carolina, U. S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, RG 048, Warren County Marriages, 1779-1873, p. 259.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bullitt County Marriages, Film 000482690.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482641.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994029, Bullitt County Births.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 253.

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 578.

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Wade, Michael O.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201541 (November 12, 2026).

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