Person

Josiah W. Wylie (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1820?

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John Wylie and Elizabeth Whitney Wylie. Married to Elizabeth J. Harper Wiley in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on December 23, 1848. Father of Alice K. Wylie, J. A. Wylie, Mildred A. Wylie, Elizabeth M. Wiley, and J. J. Wiley. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer Princeton in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 356B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 783.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 24.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 224B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 488A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000851644.

Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Caldwell County Administrators Bonds, July 6, 1862, p. 212A-B.

Citation

Wylie, Josiah W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212891 (November 12, 2026).

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