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Sandy Alexander Gossom (Warren County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1809 d. 1871

Warren County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of William Gossom and Elizabeth Buckley Gossom. Married to Elizabeth "Eliza" Jane Mitchell Gossom in Warren County, Kentucky, on July 11, 1833. Father of Charles Alexander Gossom, Edmund Hall Gossom, Martin Rumsey Gossom, Thomas Gossom, William Gill Gossom, Thomas James Gossom, Ann Elizabeth "Belle" Gossom, Sandy Cooke Gossom, and Tandy Merritt Gossom. Resident in Warren County in 1840. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Warren County in 1840. Farmer in Warren County in 1850. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Warren County in 1850. Farmer in Warren County in 1860. Owned forty-nine enslaved persons in Warren County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, p. 49.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 107B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 414.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 592.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 445B-446A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Warren County Marriages, Film #000339890, p. 92.

Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Warren County Wills, vol. 4, 1797-1985, p. 105-108.

Irene Moss Sumpter, Our Heritage: An Album of Early Warren County Kentucky Land Marks (Bowling Green, KY: American National Bank and Trust Company, 1977) 74, 76.

“Eliza Jane Mitchell,” AKS Catalogue Number 2020-070, Antique Kentucky Samplers, https://antiquekentuckysamplers.org/collection/eliza-jane-mitchell/ (accessed September 8, 2021).

Citation

Gossom, Sandy Alexander. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209783 (November 12, 2026).

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