Person

Willis Rankin (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1802-12-09 d. 1889-04-03

Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy R. Rankin. Father of Alice Rankin and Asbury Rankin. Farmer in Harrison County, Kentucky, in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 1, p. 112.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, p. 120.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, Richland District, p. 25.

Find A Grave, “Willis Rankin (1802-1889),” Memorial #22518091, http://findagrave.com/memorial/22518091 (accessed February 14, 2018).

Citation

Rankin, Willis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204293 (November 12, 2026).

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