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Andrew J. Viley (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer and shorthorn cattle breeder)

b. 1828-05-03 d. 1860-11-15

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer and shorthorn cattle breeder. Paynes Depot, Kentucky, native. Son of Willa Viley and Lydia Smith Viley. Married to Mary Louisa Peak Nuckols Viley. Father of Annie Viley, Lydia Viley, Sallie Viley, Leland Viley, and Willa Viley. Cadet at the Western Military Institute in Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1849. Farmer in Scott County in 1860. Owned seventeen enslaved persons in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 58. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 20. Register of the Cadets, and Regulations of the Western Military Institute, at Georgetown, Kentucky, 1848—9 (Cincinnati.: C. Clark & Co.,1849), 6. Find A Grave, "Andrew J. Viley (1828-1860)," Memorial #98984941, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98984941/andrew-j.-viley (accessed January 2, 2018). Peter, Robert, M.D., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky (Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, 1882), 168.

Citation

Viley, Andrew J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204618 (January 24, 2026).

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