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Joseph S. Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer, newspaper editor, and notary public)

b. 1834 d. 1862

Garrard and Pulaski County, Kentucky, farm laborer, newspaper editor, and notary public. Kentucky native. Son of Enoch Burdett. Attended Kentucky University in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1859. Farm laborer in Garrard County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Garrard County in 1850. Newspaper editor in Pulaski County in 1860. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Pulaski County in 1860. Notary public in Garrard County in 1862.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, District 1, p. 230A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, District 1, p. 151.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, District 1, p. 195A.

First Annual Announcement of Kentucky University, 1859 (Louisville: Morton & Griswold, 1859), 30.

"Joseph Smith Burdett (1834-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial 7221931, accessed October 1, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7221931.

KYR-0001-017-0190

Citation

Burdett, Joseph S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203696 (November 12, 2026).

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