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Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep)

b. 1810?

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and politician. Virginia native. Married to Malinda Divine Gabbert. Farmer in Mercer County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Farmer in Mercer County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Mercer County in 1840, from 1853 to 1855, and from 1861 to 1865.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No. 2, p. 343B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No. 2, p. 899.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No. 2, p. 570.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No. 2, p. 42A.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 604.

KYR-0001-004-1356.

KYR-0362-001-0001.

KYR-0001-029-0552.

Citation

Gabbert, Elijah. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213426 (November 12, 2026).

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