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William Owsley Hansford (Lincoln County, Kentucky, attorney and clerk )

b. 1827-06-13 d. 1897-05-20

Lincoln County, Kentucky, attorney, clerk, and trustee. Lincoln County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Hansford and Martha Owsley Hansford. Married to Ann Eliza Bruce Hansford in Garrard County, Kentucky, on March 13, 1860. Father of Bruce Hansford. Attended Bacon College in Georgetown, Kentucky. Resident of Lincoln County in 1840. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Lincoln County in 1840. Law student in Lincoln County in 1850. Household owned nine enslaved persons in Lincoln County in 1850. Delegate to the General Assembly in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1857. Attorney in Lincoln County in 1860. Clerk in Lincoln County in 1861. Trustee of the town of Crab Orchard in 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 4.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2, p. 298A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2, p. 256.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Crab Orchard, p. 78-79.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Crab Orchard, p. 1B.

"Judge W. O. Hansford," Interior Journal (Stanford, Ky.), May 25, 1897, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/71268945/?terms=william%20owsley%20hansford&match=1 (accessed June 23, 2021).

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film #001689805, p. 41.

"William Owsley Hansford (1827-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial #76518049, accessed June 23, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76518049.

KYR-0001-017-0112.

Citation

Hansford, William Owsley. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213690 (November 12, 2026).

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