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Joseph Coleman Carter (Woodford County, Kentucky, physician and politician)

b. 1808-12-23 d. 1876-01-26

Woodford County, Kentucky, physician and politician. Virginia native. Married to Margaret Carlyle Carter. Father of Drake Daniel Carter, Mary Ella Carter, Lewis Marshall Carter, Dolly Carter, Josephine D. Carter, and Thomas Charles Carter. Physician in Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed John Lawson as a laborer in Woodford County in 1850. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1850. Physician in Woodford County in 1860. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1860. Member of the Versailles Board of Trustees in Woodford County in 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 2, p. 461B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 836.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailels, p. 491B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles p. 526A.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994058, Woodford County Deaths, p. 4.

"Joseph Coleman Carter (1808-1876)," Find A Grave, Memorial #100825689, accessed August 21, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100825689.

KYR-0001-017-0151.

Citation

Carter, Joseph Coleman. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209693 (November 12, 2026).

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