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Eli Wheat (Adair County, Kentucky, saddler and judge)

b. 1805?

Adair County, Kentucky, saddler and judge. Botetourt County, Virginia, native. Son of Joseph Wheat. Married to Elizabeth Allen Wheat in Adair County, Kentucky, on June 19, 1824. Father of Elizabeth E. Wheat, C. M. Wheat, John R. Wheat, Sophia S. Wheat, Benjamin F. Wheat, and Mattie E. Wheat. Married to Melia R. Moore Wheat in Adair County on May 28, 1863. Saddler in Adair County in 1850. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Adair County in 1850. Appointed county judge by Governor John L. Helm in Adair County in 1851. Saddler in Adair County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Adair County in 1860. Held one enslaved person in trust in Adair County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 2b.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 13.

The Adair County News (Columbia, Kentucky), January 8, 1908, p. 1 of 8.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, p. 93.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, p. 12.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Adair County Marriages, Film #000851644, p. 43.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Adair County Marriages, Film #000830576, p. 57 of 167 microfilm.

Citation

Wheat, Eli. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207242 (November 12, 2026).

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