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James M. Bell (Hopkins County, Kentucky, ferryman and farmer)

b. 1812?

Hopkins County, Kentucky, ferryman and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy G. Boggess Bell in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, on December 21, 1834. Father of Eliza Bell, Mary Bell, and Annie Bell. Ferryman in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Madisonville in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Madisonville in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, Subdivision 2, p. 227B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 836.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 221B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County Marriages, Film #000557316, p. 92.

Citation

Bell, James M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208285 (November 12, 2026).

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