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Susan Shelby Magoffin Gaither (Franklin co. resident, daughter of Gov. Beriah Magoffin)

b. 1841? d. 1866-04-20

Franklin County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Daughter of Beriah Magoffin and Anna Nelson Shelby Magoffin. Married to Nathan Gaither, Jr. in Franklin County, Kentucky, on September 25, 1861. Resident of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned twelve enslaved persons in Harrodsburg in 1850. Resident of Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned eleven enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860. Resident of Columbia, Kentucky, in 1863.

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Sex
Female
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, District 2, p. 369B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, District 2, p. 915.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Franklin, District 1, p. 259.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Franklin, District 1, p. 24.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994034, Franklin County Marriages, p. 1.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 17, Bracken County, Kentucky, 1865, (Accessed via Ancestry.com).

Find A Grave, "Susan Shelby Magoffin Gaither (1841-1866)," Memorial #19021871, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19021871 (accessed April 1, 2021).

Citation

Gaither, Susan Shelby Magoffin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212205 (November 12, 2026).

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