Joseph Early (Middletown, Kentucky, physician and farmer)
b. 1800-02-04 d. 1871-05-29
Middletown, Kentucky, physician and farmer. Virginia native. Son of Whitfield Early and Mary Rucker Minor Early. Married to Adeline F. Rogers Early. Father of Ionia O. Early, Charles C. Early, Mary Vesta Early, Alva S. Early, Cora I. Early, Roger Randolph Early, and Virenda A. Early. Physician in Boone County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in 1860.
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- Race
- White
Bibliography
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, District 2, p. 166B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 85. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 18. Find A Grave, "Dr Joseph Early (1800-1871)," Memorial #61630409, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61630409/joseph-early (accessed January 3, 2018).
Citation
Early, Joseph. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209559 (November 12, 2026).
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