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Nelson Jolly, Jr. (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1787-02-20 d. 1878-09-27

Breckinridge County, Kentucky, farmer. Son of Nelson Jolly, Sr. Married to Barbara Barr Jolly. Father of Mary Jolly, Sallie Jolly, John B. Jolly, James G. Jolly, Samuel J. Jolly, Gideon P. Jolly, Bettie A. Jolly, Adam N. Jolly, Thomas J. Jolly, David C. Jolly, Henry C. Jolly, and Francis M. Jolly. Sergeant in 3rd Regiment (Allen's) Mounted, Kentucky Volunteers in the War of 1812. Magistrate of Breckinridge County. Sheriff of Breckinridge County in 1849. Farmer in Breckinridge County in 1850. Resident of Breckinridge County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in 1850 and six in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, District 1, p. 139. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, District 1, p. 667. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, District 1, p. 15. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, District 1, p. 9. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, Hardinsburg, p. 20. United States War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815, database with images, FamilySearch ( https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29K-8T2P : 11 March 2016), Nelson Jolly, 1812-1815; citing NARA microfilm publication M602 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); roll 112; FHL microfilm 882,630. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 1065-1066. Find A Grave, "Nelson Jolly, Jr. (1787-1878)," Memorial #49392037, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49392037 (accessed June 25, 2017).

Citation

Jolly, Nelson, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205840 (November 12, 2026).

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