Person

William Cummins (Williamson County, Tennessee, farmer and County Clerk.)

b. 1811-07-27 d. 1871-11-29

Williamson County, Tennessee, farmer and court clerk. Tennessee native. Married to Elizabeth Jane Mayberry Cummins in Williamson County, Tennessee, on December 21, 1843. Father of Lucy M. Cummins, George W. Cummins, and Rachel Cummins. Married to Susan Ann Russell Fowlkes Cummins on March 6, 1856. Father of Willie Cummins. Farmer in Williamson County, Tennessee, in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Williamson County in 1850. County court clerk in Williamson County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Williamson County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Williamson County, District 3, p. 151B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Williamson County, District 3.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Williamson County, District 1, p. 116.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Williamson County, District 1, p. 483B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Williamson County, District 9, p. 134A

Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Williamson County, 1840-1850: Marriages, (Loose) Cr-Ho.

Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. XLVII (Washington, D.C.: Press of Judd & Detweiler, Inc., 1919), 226.

"William Cummins (1811-1871)," Find A Grave, Memorial 148171684, accessed July 31, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148171684.

Citation

Cummins, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209118 (November 12, 2026).

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