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John Burnam (Warren Co, KY, merchant, farmer, prov govt rep & treasurer of prov govt)

b. 1804 d. 1891

Warren County, Kentucky, merchant, farmer, provisional government convention member and officer. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah D. Hines Burnam in 1827. Father of Thompson Burnham, John Quincy Burnam, Bennett Burnam, Nancy H. Burnam, James Burnam, Curtis P. Burnam, and Sarah "Sallie" A. Burnam. Married to America Jackson Burnam in Warren County, Kentucky, on April 23, 1850. Father of Mary E. Burnam, Charles Burnam, and Julia Burnam. Resident in Warren County in 1830. Owned five enslaved persons in Warren County in 1830. Resident in Warren County in 1840. Owned ten enslaved persons in Warren County in 1840. Member of the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1844. Merchant in Warren County in 1850. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Warren County in 1850. Farmer in Warren County in 1860. Owned eighteen enslaved persons and held three enslaved persons as guardian in Warren County in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861. Appointed treasurer of the Provisional Confederate State Administration of Kentucky on December 17, 1861. Justice of the peace in Warren County in 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Fifth Manuscript Census of the United States (1830), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, p. 62.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, p. 34.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 22A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 466.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 591.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 445B.

"John Quincy Burnam (1804-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial 99476685, accessed November 1, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99476685/.

Kent Masterson Brown, The Civil War in Kentucky (Mason City, Iowa: Savas Publishing Company, 2000), 85.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Warren County Marriages, Film #000339890, p. 217.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 738.

Stephen Lynn King, The Confederate Dead at Bowling Green, Kentucky (Bowling Green, KY, 1997), 41.

KYR-0001-031-0035.

KYR-0004-033-0001.

Citation

Burnam, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206698 (November 12, 2026).

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