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Mary A. J. Cartwright Wadlington (Princeton, Kentucky, governess)

b. 1815?

Caldwell County, Kentucky, governess. Kentucky native. Married to James A. Cartwright. Married to Thomas B. Wadlington in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on December 21, 1850. Mother of Thomas Wadlington, Mary Wadlington, and Ann Wadlington. Resident of Caldwell County in 1850. Employed Lewis Brown as a farmer in Caldwell County in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Family governess in Princeton in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons (including Jourdan and John) in Caldwell County in 1860.

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Sex
Female
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 350B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 778.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 81.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 221B-222A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000851644, p. 269.

Citation

Wadlington, Mary A. J. Cartwright. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205419 (November 12, 2026).

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