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John Darwin Elliott (Nelson county, Kentucky, attorney and clerk)

b. 1826-08-28 d. 1897-09-21

Bardstown, Nelson county, Kentucky, attorney and clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Lucinda Beal Elliot and William Elliot. Married Susan Carpenter Elliot in Bardstown, Kentucky on June 26, 1855. Father of Mary E. Elliot, Sam C. Elliot, Lucinda Abel Elliot, Louisa P. Elliot, Sarah Abel Elliot, Maggie Abel Elliot, and Lon Abel Elliot. Resident in Nelson County, Kentucky in 1850. Attorney in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky in 1860. Clerk of Nelson County c.1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 748.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown, p. 4.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, p. 127.

Find A Grave, "John Darwin Elliot (1826-1897)," Memorial #99886046, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99886046 (accessed April 24, 2019).

Kentucky Marriage Records, Nelson County Courthouse, Bardstown, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film 001929414, p. 69.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Hardin County, KY, May 1865, p. 59, (Accessed via ancestry.com).

KYR-0001-004-0343.

Citation

Elliott, John Darwin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206313 (November 12, 2026).

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