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John Sinclair Wyatt (Montgomery County, Kentucky, clerk, farmer, and sheriff)

b. 1826-08-13 d. 1903-03-03

Montgomery County, Kentucky, clerk, farmer, and sheriff. Montgomery County, Kentucky, native. Son of Hayden Wyatt and Mary Wyatt. Married to Elizabeth "Bettie" Orear Wyatt in Montgomery County, Kentucky, on February 20, 1855. Father of L. Buford Wyatt, John S. Wyatt, Albert Wyatt, and Mary G. Wyatt. Clerk in Montgomery County in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1850. Sheriff in Montgomery County from 1856 to 1864. Farmer in Montgomery County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Montgomery County in 1860. Member of Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, District 2, p. 79A-B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, District 2, p. 57.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Mount Sterling, p. 199-200.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Mount Sterling, p. 88A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Jeffersonville, p. 260A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Montgomery County Marriages, Film #000216835.

"Wyatt," The Mt. Sterling Advocate (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) , Mar. 11, 1903, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/71018772/?terms=john%20s%20wyatt&match=1 (accessed June 22, 2021).

Find A Grave, "John Sinclair Wyatt (1826-1903)," Memorial #84927194, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84927194 (accessed June 22, 2021).

Citation

Wyatt, John Sinclair. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205921 (November 12, 2026).

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