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John W. Haws (Lawrence County)

b. 1820?

Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth A. Haws. Father of Arthur W. Haws, John J. C. Haws, Ashburn Haws, Laver Haws, Georgiana Haws, Luella Haws, and Mary Haws. Sheriff of Lawrence County from at least 1850 to 1859. Farmer in Lawrence County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 138. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Passed at the Session Which Was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, On Saturday the 31st of December, 1853, and Ended Friday the 10th of March, 1854 (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges, 1854), p. 257. Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Begun and Held in the Town of Frankfort, On Monday, the Fifth Day of December, In the Year of Our Lord 1859, And of the Commonwealth the Sixty-Eighth (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1859), p. 88-89. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 31. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kansas, Johnson County, Monticello Township, p. 114.

Citation

Haws, John W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203053 (November 12, 2026).

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