Person

Benjamin Wheatley (Marion County, Kentucky, farmer.)

b. 1800?

Marion County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Ann Lanham Wheatley in Washington County, Kentucky, on July 1, 1820. Father of John Wheatley, Mary Wheatley, Emily Wheatley, and Benedict Wheatley. Farmer in Marion County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Marion County in 1850. Farmer in Marion County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District no. 1, p. 361A.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District no. 1, p. 571.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Washington County Marriages, Film #000241382.

Citation

Wheatley, Benjamin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204466 (November 12, 2026).

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