Person

William Newman (Edmonson County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant)

b. 1819?

Edmonson County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Mary M. Newman. Father of Cora Newman. Laborer in Edmonson County in 1850. Farmer and Merchant in Edmonson County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Edmonson County, p. 11; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Edmonson County, p. 109; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Edmonson County, p. 2; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 11, p. 104.

Citation

Newman, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211864 (November 12, 2026).

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