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James Clifton (Greenup County, KY, farmer)

b. 1829?

Greenup County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth A. Clifton. Father of Lydia A. Clifton, Manlius Clifton, and Matthew S. Clifton. Laborer in Greenup County, Kentucky in 1850. Farmer in Greenup County in 1860. Employed William Young as a farm laborer in Greenup County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, District 1, p. 230A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, p. 719.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, Precinct 3, p. 79B.

Citation

Clifton, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213763 (November 12, 2026).

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