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John Wesley Collings (Nelson County, KY, grocer merchant)

b. 1819-06-06 d. 1889-07-28

Nelson County, Kentucky, grocer merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Mary E. Southerland Collings in Nelson County on September 24, 1842. Father of Margaret Collings, William Collings, Mary Virginia “Jennie” Collings, John Collings, and Mollie Collings. Resident of Nelson County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Grocer merchant with Sanford Collings in Nelson County in 1860. Employed R. Able as a clerk in Nelson County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 311A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p.183 .

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District , p. 173.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown, p. 82B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film #000481488, p. 156.

Find A Grave, "John Wesley Collings (1819-1889)," Memorial 100001219, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100001219 (accessed April 21, 2020).

Citation

Collings, John Wesley. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208236 (November 12, 2026).

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