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Mathew Cummins (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and judge)

b. 1817-09-24 d. 1907-01-25

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Rachael Patterson Cummins in Mercer County, Kentucky on September 20, 1843. Father of Elizabeth Cummins, Mary Cummins, William Cummins, Henrietta Cummins, Rachael T Cummins, Susan A. Cummins, and Nancy Cummins. Farmer in Mercer County, Kentucky in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Mercer County in 1850. Farmer in Mercer County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Mercer County in 1861.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, p. 345A.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, p. 592.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film 000191858.

"Mathew Cummins (1817-1907)," Find A Grave, Memorial 22465027, accessed July 12, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22465027.

KYR-0001-020-1302.

Citation

Cummins, Mathew. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202633 (November 12, 2026).

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