Person

George Otho Yeiser, Sr. (Boyle co. merchant / Lyon co. gentleman)

b. 1794?

Lyon County, Kentucky, gentleman. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret M. Jamison Yeiser in Mercer County, Kentucky, in January 1817. Father of Philip D. Yeiser, Frederick Yeiser, Jacob D. Yeiser, and George Otho Yeiser, Jr. Merchant in Boyle County in 1850. Gentleman in Lyon County in 1860. Household owned three enslaved persons in Lyon County in 1860. Postmaster of Eddyville from August 23, 1861, to March 19, 1862.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 356A, 358A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 762-63.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 1 of 3 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film #000191847, p. 182 of 616 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, Kentucky, Knox - Marshall Counties, p. 402 of 588 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Citation

Yeiser, George Otho, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208964 (November 12, 2026).

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