Person

John A. Mackey (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1816?

Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer. Mississippi native. Married Lucinda Conner Mackey in Nelson County, Kentucky on January 25, 1838. Father of Walter Mackey, Susan Mackey, Mary Mackey, Rodney Mackey, John Mackey, Margaret Mackey, and Wallace Mackey. Farmer in Nelson County, Kentucky in 1850. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Farmer in Nelson County in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 619.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, p. 178.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 209.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, p. 116.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Nelson County Courthouse, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film #000481488.

Citation

Mackey, John A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203350 (November 12, 2026).

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