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Dinsmore Woodruff (Caldwell County, Kentucky, blacksmith)

b. 1815-08-18 d. 1904-03-14

Caldwell County, Kentucky, blacksmith. Kentucky native. Married to Selena Dunkeson Woodruff in Christian County, Kentucky, on October 15, 1835. Father of Elizabeth J. Woodruff, Artemissa Woodruff, Nancy A. Woodruff, William J. Woodruff, and Misseuiah J. Woodruff. Married to Mary Woodruff. Blacksmith in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed Samuel W. Keyper and William A. S. Wells as blacksmiths in Caldwell County in 1850. Blacksmith in Caldwell County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 344A-B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 111.

"Dinsmore Woodruff (1815-1904)," Find A Grave, Memorial #40968211, accessed April 6, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40968211.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Christian County Marriages, Film #000465562, p. 131.

Citation

Woodruff, Dinsmore. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210490 (November 12, 2026).

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