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Robert W. Blackburn (Franklin County, Kentucky, merchant)

b. 1825-02-17 d. 1866-12-02

Franklin County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas Blackburn and Willina Burbridge Blackburn. Married to Hannah P. Marsh Blackburn. Father of Isabella Blackburn, Thomas Blackburn, and Agnes Blackburn. Merchant in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 236.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 488A.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Adams County, Natchez, p. 14D.

_Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of The American Revolution), eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D.C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. 115: 1915, p. 103.

"Robert W. Blackburn (1825-1866)," Find A Grave, Memorial 102179226, accessed November 17, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102179226.

Citation

Blackburn, Robert W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212877 (November 12, 2026).

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