Person

James Burtle (Grayson County, Kentucky, merchant and farmer)

b. 1818-11-05 d. 1895-04-19

Grayson County, Kentucky, merchant and farmer. Kentucky native. Son of James Burtle and Ellen Higdon Burtle. Married to Catharine S. Brooking Burtle on March 16, 1847. Father of Mary E. Burtle, James A. Burtle, W. A. Burtle, J. S. Burtle, Mattie E. Burtle, Levi Burtle, and C. F. Burtle. Married to Fannie Moore Tate Burtle on December 28, 1864. Attended school at Mount Merino Seminary. Clerk for John Cunnigham in Leichfield, Kentucky. Merchant in Grayson County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in 1850.

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Race
White

Bibliography

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, (Louisville: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 1100. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 1. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 162. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, Leitchfield, p. 36. Find A Grave, "James Burtle (1818-1895)," Memorial #63192332, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=63192332&ref=acom (accessed June 26, 2017).

Citation

Burtle, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203999 (November 12, 2026).

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