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Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant)

b. 1826?

Maysville, Kentucky merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Jane Newell on November 15, 1849. Father of William Nelson, Jennie E. Nelson, and Simon Nelson. Store keeper in Maysville in 1850. Merchant in Maysville in 1860 and 1863.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2, p. 106.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 81.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 5, p. 22.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Mason County, Kentucky, October 1863, p. 111, (Accessed via ancestry.com).

Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry,, comp., Marriage Records of Mason County, 1856-1860, Volume VI (Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, c1965), (accessed via ancestry.com).

Citation

Nelson, Isaac. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211412 (November 12, 2026).

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