Person

Martin Van Buren Griffey (Hickman County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1837 d. 1909-03-27

Hickman County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas Griffey and Elizabeth Griffey. Student in Hickman County in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Hickman County in 1850. Farmer in Hickman County in 1860. Household owned five enslaved persons in Hickman County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, pp. 23A-B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, p. 668.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Moscow, p. 452.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Moscow, p. 204A.

Find A Grave, "Martin Van Buren Griffey (1837-1909)," Memorial #144541284, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144541284 (accessed September 9, 2020).

Citation

Griffey, Martin Van Buren. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210378 (November 12, 2026).

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