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Joseph L. Cartwright (Pettis County, Missouri, physician and farmer)

b. 1825-10-24 d. 1888-05-15

Pettis County, Missouri, physician and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy E. Cartwright. Father of James L. Cartwright and George L. Cartwright. Married to Laura A. Mitchum Cartwright in Pettis County, Missouri, on May 13, 1861. Father of Joseph L. Cartwright and Lee Cartwright. Physician in Clark County, Kentucky, 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Clark County in 1850. Farmer in Pettis County, Missouri, in 1860. Employed Joseph Settles as an overseer in Pettis County in 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Pettis County in 1860. Physician in Pettis County in 1863.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 9B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 277.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, Pettis County, Heaths Creek, p. 793.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Missouri, Pettis County, Heaths Creek, p. 169B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, Pettis County, Heaths Creek, p. 515A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Pettis County, MO, August and September, 1863, p. 31.

"Dr. Joseph Lafayette 'Joe' Cartwright (1825-1888)," Find A Grave, Memorial #77143568, accessed August 3, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77143568.

Missouri Marriage Records – Microfilm (1805-2002) Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, Pettis County Marriages, 1833-1865, p. 280.

Citation

Cartwright, Joseph L.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213187 (November 15, 2026).

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