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Warren County, Kentucky, farmer. Butler County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sarah Halsell. Father of John Ewing Halsell, William J. Halsell, James M. Halsell, and Mary Halsell. Farmer in Warren County in 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in 1860.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), p. 128.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 76. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 395. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green, District 1, p. 21. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 7. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Rich Pond, Patter Precinct, p. 8.

Citation

Halsell, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202486 (November 12, 2026).

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John S. Jones et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

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