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William Wirt Goddard (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and slaveholder.)

b. 1820-02-08 d. 1901-01-27

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer. Scott County, Kentucky, native. Son of Michael Goddard. Married to Sarah Eliza Glave Goddard on January 29, 1857 in Harrison County, Kentucky. Father of Glave Goddard, Nicholas Goddard, Mary Goddard Curry, and Rebel Goddard. Farmer in Mercer County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 48.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 52A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Precinct 5, p. 515A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, Film #000216888.

"William W Goddard (1820-1901)," Find A Grave, Memorial #15192381, accessed March 30, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15192381.

Citation

Goddard, William Wirt. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205893 (November 12, 2026).

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