Person

Washington P. Emerson (Henry County and Shelby County, Kentucky, hotel keeper and farmer.)

b. 1822?

Henry County and Shelby County, Kentucky, hotel keeper and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Juliett C. Self Emerson. Father of Rosaline Emerson, Odie Emerson, Washington Emerson, Jr., Nettie Emerson, and Ida Emerson. Hotel keeper in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Henry County in 1860. Farmer in Shelby County in 1863.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 356.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 185A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marshall County, Staton District, p. 254B.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Shelby County, KY, July 1863, p. 60.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 32472.

Citation

Emerson, Washington P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204581 (January 18, 2026).

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