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John Ewing Halsell (County Attorney of Warren County)

b. 1826-09-11

Bowling Green, Kentucky, attorney, farmer, and county attorney. Kentucky native. Son of William Halsell and Mary Garland Halsell. Married to Sarah A. Smith Halsell in 1849. Attended Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. Studied law under Garland J. Blewett in Bowling Green. Schoolteacher in Warren County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1856. Elder of Cumberland Presbyterian Church from 1856. Attorney in Warren County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Warren County in 1860. County attorney of Warren County in 1862.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 76B.

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, District 1, p. 856.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 440A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green, p. 79B.

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.

KYR-0001-004-1327.

Citation

Halsell, John Ewing. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202907 (November 12, 2026).

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