Person

Samuel Messick (Boyle County, Kentucky, merchant)

b. 1810-03-24 d. 1879-02-20

Boyle County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Harriet Allen Messick in Mercer County, Kentucky, on July 26, 1837. Father of John Messick, Elizabeth Messick, Kate Messick, Samuel Messick, and Alfred Messick. Merchant in Boyle County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 844.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 20.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 112A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film #000191856, p. 177.

Find A Grave, "Samuel Messick (1810-1879)," Memorial #44756837, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44756837 (accessed September 11, 2020).

Citation

Messick, Samuel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209865 (November 12, 2026).

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