Person

John Stacker, Jr. (Lyon County, Kentucky, clerk, merchant, and county examiner)

b. 1828? d. 1887-04-25

Lyon County, Kentucky, merchant, county examiner, and postmaster. Pennsylvania native. Married to Mary E. Gracey Stacker in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on January 16, 1854. Clerk in Caldwell County in 1850. Household owned eighty-two enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Merchant in Lyon County in 1860. County examiner in Lyon County in 1865. Postmaster for Eddyville in Lyon County from March 30, 1865, to September 22, 1865.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 382A.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 770.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 43B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film 000546372.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Lyon County, Kentucky, vol. 28, p. 126.

"John Stacker (1828-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial 55453805, accessed June 17, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55453805.

KYR-0001-004-2297.

Citation

Stacker, John, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206317 (November 12, 2026).

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