Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

Person

Ephraim Whitesides (Frankfort, Kentucky, carpenter and assistant keeper of the penitentiary)

b. 1815-09-14 d. 1886-01-23

About

Frankfort, Kentucky, carpenter and assistant keeper of the penitentiary. Oldham County, Kentucky, native. Married to Martha Rankin Whitesides in Oldham County, Kentucky, on January 1, 1837. Father of Addie Whitesides, Neville Whitesides, and Allen Whitesides. Assistant keeper of the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, from 1851 to 1876. Carpenter in Oldham County, Kentucky, in 1850. Carpenter in Frankfort in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Frankfort in 1860.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 2, p. 109B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District, p. 275.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District 1, p. 492B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 137A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Oldham County Marriages, Film 000482442.

"Death of Mr. E. Whitesides," The Frankfort Roundabout (Frankfort, KY), January 30, 1886, p. 2.

"Ephraim Whitesides (1815-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial 57969701, accessed November 14, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57969701.

Citation

Whitesides, Ephraim. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209954 (November 12, 2026).

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Documents (6)

Correspondence
E. Whitesides to Beriah Magoffin
1861-10-31
Correspondence
E. Whitesides to Unknown
1863-10-19
Correspondence
Ephraim Whitesides to Unknown
1863-12-12
Petition
Patrick Engles to Thomas E. Bramlette
1863-10-26
Petition
Samuel South et al. to Beriah Magoffin
Correspondence
W. L. Jermane et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-02-28

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