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Joel Blackwell (Webster County, KY, merchant )

b. 1825-02-06 d. 1891-12-02

Webster County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Blackwell. Father of Nancy Blackwell, Prissie Blackwell, Thomas Blackwell, Matilda Blackwell, and Joseph Blackwell. Farmer in Union County, Kentucky, in 1850. Merchant in Webster County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Webster County in 1860. Merchant in Webster County in 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, p. 467A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 554-55.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 483A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Webster County, KY, June 1863, p. 2.

"Joel Blackwell (1825-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial #41182147, accessed November 10, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41182147.

Citation

Blackwell, Joel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203254 (November 12, 2026).

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