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Robert A. Seay (Louisville, Kentucky, saddler, agent, and policeman)

b. 1827? d. 1891-08-18

Louisville, Kentucky, saddler, agent, and policeman. Virginia native. Son of Leonard Seay and Lucy Seay. Married to Mary Seay. Father of Rosa Seay, George Seay, Sallie Lou Seay, and Sue Seay. Saddler in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1850. Policeman in Louisville in 1852. Policeman in Louisville in 1860. Employed Bridget Kelly as a domestic worker in Louisville in 1860. Policeman in Louisville in 1861.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 273B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 819.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 115.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 53 A.

”Arrested by Death.” The Courier-Journal. (Louisville, Ky.). Aug. 19, 1891.

”The Case Against Bernstein, Rosenbaum, and Goldburg.” The Louisville Daily Courier. (Louisville, Ky.). Jan. 19, 1860.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 8.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 220.

KYR-0001-021-0013.

Citation

Seay, Robert A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201959 (November 12, 2026).

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