Person

William H. Baley (Caldwell County, Kentucky, dry goods merchant)

b. 1833?

Caldwell County, Kentucky, dry goods merchant. Georgia native. Son of Eliza Baley. Married to Mary Ann Pearce Baley in Montgomery County, Tennessee, on November 15, 1855. Father of James Baley. Resident in Paducah, Kentucky, in 1850. Dry goods merchant in Princeton in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860. Hired one enslaved person out to J. Pearce in Princeton in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah and Suburbs, p. 148A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 107.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 218A.

Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Montgomery County Marriages, 1838-1874.

Citation

Baley, William H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210133 (November 12, 2026).

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