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Horatio Gates Valance Wintersmith (Hardin County, KY, merchant, attorney, judge)

b. 1828-02-14 d. 1883-10-15

Hardin County, Kentucky, merchant, judge, and attorney. Hardin County native. Married to Elmira Bland Wintersmith in Hardin County, Kentucky, on November 26, 1850. Father of Maria J. Wintersmith, William H. Wintersmith, and Laura Wintersmith. Merchant in Hardin County in 1860. Presiding judge of Hardin County Court in 1862. Presiding judge of Hardin County Court in 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Elizabethtown District 1, p. 95.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 305.

"Horatio Gates Valance Wintersmith (1828-1883)," Find A Grave, Memorial #96422839, accessed May, 23, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorialcgi-bin/96422839.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hardin County Marriages, Film #000390788.

KYR-0003-101-0002.

KYR-0003-101-0003.

Citation

Wintersmith, Horatio Gates Valance. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213264 (January 24, 2026).

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