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David Unsell (Ballard County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1805?

Ballard County, Kentucky, farmer and ferryboat owner. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Unsell. Father of William Unsell, Moses Unsell, Ann Unsell, Oliver C. Unsell, Elizabeth Unsell, Mary Unsell. Farmer in Ballard County in 1850. Farmer in Ballard County in 1860. Employed John S. Pollock as a laborer in Ballard County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Ballard County in 1860. Owned a steam-powered ferryboat, the Lucy McConnell, that was seized and destroyed by soldiers from the 19th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U. S. A.) in August 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, p. 295A-B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Tharps, p. 680.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Blandville District, p. 6.

Committee on War Claims, William H. Hughes, Administrator of David Unsell, Deceased, H. R. Rep. No. 43 (1892) (to accompany H. R. 2189), The Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Fifty-second Congress, 1891-92, (Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1892).

KYR-0001-019-0115.

KYR-0001-019-0146.

Citation

Unsell, David. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211062 (November 12, 2026).

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