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Clarinda Tackett Rasure (Julia Dean) (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, sex worker and madam.)

b. 1823

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, sex worker and madam. Ohio native. Married to David Rasure. Mother of Sarah Jane Rasure, Emela Rasure, Amaziah "Sam" Rasure, Amelia Rasure, David Rasure, Jr., George W. Rasure, and Francis M. Rasure. Resident of New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, in 1850. Sex worker and madam in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1860. Held in Gratiot Street Military Prison in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 3, 1864, for counterfeiting.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Floyd County, New Albany, p. 392A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 1, p. 195-196.

Union Provost Marshals' File of Paper Relating to Individual Civilians, NARA RG 109, Roll 0025.

Crystal N. Feimster, "Keeping a Disorderly House in Civil War Kentucky," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 117, no. 2 (Spring 2019): 301-322.

Citation

Rasure, Clarinda Tackett. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205618 (November 12, 2026).

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