Person

Jefferson Dawson, Sr. (Bath County, Kentucky, farmer. )

b. 1825?

Bath County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Rice Dawson in Bath County, Kentucky, in November 1846. Father of Mary P. Dawson, John W. Dawson, Nancy Dawson, Joseph Dawson, Emma Dawson, Jenny Dawson, and Jefferson Dawson, Jr. Farmer in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Owned James [Unknown] in Bath County in 1858. Farmer in Bath County in 1860. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 88A.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 13.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 76A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville Precinct, p. 57B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994028, Bath County Births.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film 000273005.

Citation

Dawson, Jefferson, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205740 (November 12, 2026).

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