Person

William McDowell (Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1830?

Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Henrietta McDowell. Father of Lettie McDowell. Farmer in Jessamine County in 1850. Farmer in Jessamine County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Jessamine County in 1860.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 2, p. 52B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 75.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 299B.

Citation

McDowell, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205497 (November 12, 2026).

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