Person

William Cash (Caldwell County, KY, wool carder and grocery merchant)

b. 1802?

Caldwell County, Kentucky, wool carder and grocery merchant. Virginia native. Married to Mariah Gates Cash in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on July 30, 1823. Father of Sarah B. Cash, John W. Cash, Joseph H. Cash, and Lucy Cash. Wool carder in Caldwell County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Grocery merchant in Caldwell County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Caldwell County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 281A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 817.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 107.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 218A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 508B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000851644, p. 130.

Citation

Cash, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207700 (November 12, 2026).

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