John McCarty Brown (Hancock County, KY, Presiding Judge and magistrate)
b. 1799?
Hancock County, Kentucky, judge and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Minerva Jane Murray Brown. Father of Eli Huston Brown, Walker Brown, and Annie Brown. Magistrate in Hawesville, Kentucky, in 1860. Presiding judge in Hancock County in 1862.
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- Male
- Race
- White
Bibliography
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 112.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #6042.
KYR-0002-022-0045.
Citation
Brown, John McCarty. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208946 (November 12, 2026).
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