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John W. Harpending (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and Wool carder)

b. 1823?

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and wool carder. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah A. Eastland Harpending in White County, Tennessee, on September 21, 1843. Father of Thomas Harpending, John Harpending, Charles Harpending, Mary E. Harpending, William H. Harpending, E. E. Harpending, and L. B. Harpending. Farmer in White County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in White County in 1850. Wool carder in Princeton, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Princeton in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, White County, District 13, p. 108A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, White County, District 13.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 114.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 218B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Crittenden County, Union, p. 381B.

Tennessee State Marriages (1780-2002), Tennessee State Library and Archives, White County, p. 16.

Citation

Harpending, John W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202030 (November 12, 2026).

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