Person

Joseph Queen (Nelson County, KY, blacksmith and merchant)

b. 1803-09-17 d. 1887-08-09

Nelson County, Kentucky, blacksmith and merchant. Kentucky native. Son of James Queen and Elizabeth Boone Queen. Married to Julia Anna Hayden Queen in Nelson County in November 1824. Father of Elizabeth S. Queen, Emmeline M. Queen, and Martha Julia Queen. Married to Mary J. Price Queen in Nelson County in August 1846. Married to Jane E. Smith Queen in Nelson County on April 17, 1855. Father of Maria Queen and Sidney Queen. Married to Louisa Smith Queen in Nelson County on April 6, 1864. Father of Elizabeth Smith. Blacksmith in Nelson County in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Grocery merchant with James Smith in Nelson County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons 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 2, p. 385A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 237, p. 17 of microfilm.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 180.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 109B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown, p.70A.

Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Film #000009667, Nelson County, November 1, 1824 (accessed via ancestry.com).

Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Film # 000481488, Nelson County (accessed via ancestry.com).

Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Film # 001929414, Nelson County, April 5, 1864 (accessed via ancestry.com).

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, 1783-1951, Film #001929414, p. 263.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR, vol. 77, p. 224 (accessed via ancestry.com).

Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, editors. Colonial Families of the United States of America: in Which is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies From the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. 7 volumes. 1912. Reprinted, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1966, 1995, p.443

Citation

Queen, Joseph. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208916 (November 12, 2026).

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