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Daniel Bodkin (Ballard County, Kentucky, gunsmith and farmer.)

b. 1823-12-09 d. 1904-07-05

Ballard County, Kentucky, gunsmith and farmer. Virginia native. Son of Charles Bodkin. Married to Eliza Jane Bodkin in Shelby County, Kentucky, on October 28, 1849. Father of Byron Bodkin, Alice Bodkin, Daniel Bodkin, Jr., Mary T. Bodkin, Olive F. Bodkin, and Eliza Bodkin. Gunsmith in Ballard County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Ballard County in 1850. Farmer in Ballard County in 1860. Employed John S. Turner as a farm laborer in Ballard County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Ballard County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Blandville, p. 276B-277A.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Picketts District, p. 621.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Picketts District, p. 43B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, District 5, p. 442B.

Thomas M. Bodkin, "Bodkin," in Ballard and Carlisle Counties History, Volume I, ed. Ballard-Carlisle Historical-Genealogical Society (Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 19-20.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film 000259290.

"Daniel Bodkin (1823-1904)," Find A Grave, Memorial 115334449, accessed September 14, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115334449.

Citation

Bodkin, Daniel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203323 (November 12, 2026).

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