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John T. Wilson (Mays Lick, Mason Co, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1824 d. 1890

Mays Lick, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Warner Wilson and Priscilla Wilson. Married to Anna Duke Wilson in Mason County on September 5, 1861. Laborer in Mason County in 1850. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850. President of the Maysville and Lexington Railroad c1855. Farmer with Joseph P. Wilson in Mays Lick in 1860. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Mason County in 1860. Farmer in Mason County in 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 130B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 769.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Mays Lick, District 2, p. 62.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Mays Lick, District 2, p. 9A-B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Mays Lick, p. 371B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1914), KDLA, Film 994027-994058: Mason County Marriages, 1861, p. 9 of 40 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

“Sketch of the Deceased - A Good Citizen and Successful Business Man Gone”, The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Kentucky), April 8, 1890.

Find A Grave, “Judge John T. Wilson (1824-1890)," Memorial # 114258024, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114258024/john-t.-wilson (accessed December 3, 2020).

Citation

Wilson, John T.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206072 (November 12, 2026).

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