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Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, sec of state, pvt 6th KY Cav CSA)

b. 1835-01-01 d. 1894-12-19

Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, statesman, and soldier. Adair County native. Son of Nathaniel Gaither and Martha Morrison Gaither. Married to Susan Shelby Magoffin Gaither on September 25, 1861. Resident of Adair County in 1850. Household owned eighteen enslaved persons in Adair County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in Adair County. School commissioner and county attorney. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. Attorney in Adair County in 1860. Secretary of state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from October 2, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Served in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair, District 1, p. 31A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair, District 1, p. 171.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair, Columbia, p. 90.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 32.

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 5th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1885), 862.

Michael C. Watson, "An Adair County History," vol. 1 (2001), 71, 83, 221, 226.

Citation

Gaither, Nathaniel, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211827 (February 13, 2026).

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