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Jesse Stevens (Caldwell County, Kentucky, sheriff and farmer)

b. 1802?

Caldwell County, Kentucky, sheriff and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary F. Stevens. Father of Mary A. Stevens, Susan A. Stevens, Joel C. Stevens, Sarah G. Stevens, Jesse T. Stevens. Farmer in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed Joseph Tennill as a laborer in Caldwell County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Caldwell County in 1850. Sheriff in Caldwell County in 1860. Employed Hester Ann Prince as a domestic servant in Caldwell County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1860. Sheriff in Caldwell County in 1861. Sheriff in Caldwell County in 1862.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 307A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 824.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton Division, p. 63.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton Division, p. 16.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 63.

KYR-0001-017-0167.

Citation

Stevens, Jesse. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202375 (November 12, 2026).

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