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Richard Apperson, Jr. (11th District Circuit Judge)

b. 1829-09-20 d. 1879-01-22

Mount Sterling, Kentucky, circuit judge. Madison County, Kentucky, native. Son of Richard Apperson. Married to Elizabeth S. Taylor Apperson on December 5, 1854. Father of Maggie Apperson and Mary Apperson. Attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Attorney in Covington, Kentucky. Served in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1847. Attorney in Montgomery County, Kentucky in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1860. Judge of the 11th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1866.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery, p. 32.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery, p. 7.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #unknown, Jefferson County Marriages.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 26.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350.
Find a Grave, “Richard Apperson (September 20, 1829-January 22, 1879),” Memorial #84886529, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=84886529 (accessed June 5, 2017).

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Apperson, Richard, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208926 (November 12, 2026).

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