Person

John S. Wilkerson (Graves County, Kentucky, overseer and farmer)

b. 1820?

Graves County, Kentucky, farmer. North Carolina native. Married to Elizabeth Allen Wilkerson in Person County, North Carolina, on October 11, 1845. Father of Warren Taylor Wilkerson, Lewis Cass Wilkerson, J.C. Wilkerson, John W. Wilkerson, Serilda V. Wilkerson, Frances V. Wilkerson, and Georgia A. Wilkerson. Married to Sarah Jane Bradshaw Wilkerson. Father of James Wilkerson. Overseer in Christian County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Christian County in 1850. Farmer in Graves County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Graves County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 375A.

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

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 52B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Pryers, p. 235A.

North Carolina, U. S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, RG 048, Person County Marriages, 1792-1868, p. 167.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 12384.

Citation

Wilkerson, John S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206883 (November 12, 2026).

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