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Joseph Kennedy (Hickman County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff)

b. 1820-08-09 d. 1885-04-27

Hickman County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth A. Kennedy. Father of Milton J. Kennedy, Jo Ella Kennedy, Julia A. Kennedy, Susan M. Kennedy, Sarah F. Kennedy, and Alice Kennedy. Farmer in Moscow, Kentucky, in 1860. Employed John Heartney and Moses Farmer as farm laborers in Moscow in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Hickman County in 1860. Sheriff in Hickman County in 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Moscow, p. 462.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, p. 205A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Moscow, p. 477A.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 125.

Find A Grave, "Joseph Kennedy (1820-1885)," Memorial #89666416, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89666416 (accessed July 7, 2020).

Citation

Kennedy, Joseph. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201776 (November 12, 2026).

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