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Joseph S. Asbury (Ballard County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant.)

b. 1817? d. 1870-03

Ballard County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Asbury. Father of H. Asbury, Charles Asbury, Joseph Asbury, and George Asbury. Farmer in Ballard County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Ballard County in 1850. Merchant in Ballard County in 1860. Employed Pascall H. Jackson as a clerk in Ballard County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Ballard County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, p. 254B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, p. 116.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Picketts District, p. 598-9.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Picketts District, p. 43A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Mortality Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, District No. 5, p. 19.

Citation

Asbury, Joseph S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204953 (November 12, 2026).

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