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William Wharton (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and corporal (U.S.A.).)

b. 1822-01-05 d. 1902-09-21

Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah J. Carloss Wharton in Trigg County, Kentucky, on February 9, 1848. Father of Frances O. Wharton, Mary L. Wharton, Susan E. Wharton, Eliza Wharton, Willie Wharton, Minnie R. Wharton, and George Wharton. Farmer in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1850. Farmer in Trigg County in 1860. Owned seventeen enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 295B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 78.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 380A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 22A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trigg County Marriages, Film 000321335, p. 115.

"Former Legislator Dies in Trigg County," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), September 23, 1902, p. 4.

"Good Man Gone," Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, KY), September 23, 1902, p. 1.

David Sumner, Kim Fortner, Pam Metts, and Charles Morris, Cemeteries of Cadiz and Trigg County, Kentucky (Sunforme Publishing, 2008), 318.

_Trigg County, Kentucky, Veterans: Lest We Forget (Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Company, 2002), 67.

Citation

Wharton, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210060 (November 12, 2026).

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