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Bayles Earle Oates (Muhlenberg County, Ky, farmer )

b. 1809-02-21 d. 1881-10-04

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth J. Randolph Oates in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, on January 25, 1831. Father of William R. Oates, Charles R. Oates, Elizabeth J. Oates, Amaretta Princette Oates, Sarah F. Oates, Samuel P. Oates, Thomas J. Oates, James W. Oates, Laura E. Oates, Virgil Oates, and Lillian Oates. Farmer in Muhlenberg County in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Muhlenberg County in 1850. Farmer in Muhlenberg County in 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Muhlenberg County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 1, p. 176B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 1, p. 109.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 1, p. 603.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 1, p. 94B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, Boggess, p. 528B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County Marriages, Film #000557316, p. 79.

"Bayles Earle Oates (1809-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial #61799461, accessed October 19, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61799461.

Citation

Oates, Bayles Earle. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204697 (November 12, 2026).

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