Person

Pleasant W. Whitsell (Hopkins Co., KY, farmer)

b. 1830?

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer. Georgia native. Son of George Whitsell. Father of Sarah L. Whitsell and Sidney A. Whitsell. Married to Mary A. Fowler Whitsell in Hopkins County, Kentucky, on November 6, 1856. Father of Eliza J. Whitsell. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1850. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Hopkins County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 151A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 732.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 616.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 210B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994039, Hopkins County Marriages.

Citation

Whitsell, Pleasant W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203940 (November 12, 2026).

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