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Watson Longest (Hancock County, KY, farmer, Home Guard member, and hemp spinner)

b. 1823?

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer, hemp spinner, and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth "Lizzie" Clement Longest in Shelby County, Kentucky, on March 3, 1847. Father of Legrand Longest, Georgia A. Longest, Mary E. Longest, John H. Longest, and Elizabeth Longest. Hemp spinner in Shelby County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1850. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860. Served in the Hancock County Home Guard in June 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 383A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 815.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 948-49.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County,Hawesville, p. 172A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, 1815-1854, Film #000259289.

KYR-0002-022-0048.

Citation

Longest, Watson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202334 (November 12, 2026).

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