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Manoah P. Clarkson (Grayson County, Kentucky, innkeeper and tavern keeper)

b. 1810-12-28

Grayson County, Kentucky, innkeeper and tavern keeper. Virginia native. Son of James F. Clarkson and Elizabeth Moreman Clarkson. Married to Zerilda Herndon Clarkson. Father of Fannie Z. Clarkson and Oscar Clarkson. Married to Sarah Fanny Vanmeter Clarkson. Father of James V. Clarkson and Clinton K. Clarkson. Moved to Kentucky with his family. Deputy clerk in Hardin County, Kentucky, under Samuel Haycraft. Clerk in Louisville, Kentucky. Moved to Grayson Springs, Kentucky. Postmaster of Grayson Springs from 1841 to 1844, 1848 to 1851, and 1852 to 1887. Innkeeper in Grayson County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in 1850. Tavern keeper in Grayson County in 1860. Owned and operated the Grayson Springs Hotel resort.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 30. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 160. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 181. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, Leitchfield, p. 75. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, Grayson County, KY, p. 178, 324, and 622, (accessed via Ancestry.com). Who Was Who in Hardin County Hardin County Historical Society, comp. (Elizabethtown, Ky.: The Elizabethtown News, 1946), 34. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 1131.

Citation

Clarkson, Manoah P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211729 (November 12, 2026).

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