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Jacob Wurtele (Louisville, Kentucky, gardener)

b. 1822 d. 1898-06-05

Louisville, Kentucky, gardener. Native of Wurtemberg, Germany. Married to Mary Garnet Wurtele in Louisville in January 1844. Father of Mary Wurtele, Louisa Wurtele, Barbara Wurtele, Alex Wurtele, Andrew Wurtele, Andrew Wurtele, Jacob Wurtele, Regina Wurtele, Rosa Wurtele. Farmer in Louisville, Kentucky in 1850. Gardener in Louisville in 1860. Employed Joseph Roadchelts, Ann Roadchelts, John Grover, Andrew Gamett, Fred Kohling, in 1860. Owned one enslaved man in Louisville in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, District 2, p. 305A
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, District 1, p. 883.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Shardines Precinct, p. 415B.
Find A Grave, "Jacob Wurtele (1822-1898)," Memorial #186054691, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186054691 (accessed May 20, 2019).
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000817886.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, District One, p. 14.
Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007129, Jefferson County Deaths.

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Wurtele, Jacob. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211860 (November 12, 2026).

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