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John Wesley Malone (Logan County, KY, attorney and county judge)

b. 1827?

Logan County, Kentucky, attorney and county judge. Sumner County, Tennessee, native. Son of William L. Malone and Sarah Shelby Weatherred Malone. Married to Elvira Elizabeth Yoast Malone. Father of Rowena Malone, John W. Malone, and Shelby Malone. Attorney in Sumner County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Sumner County in 1850. Attorney in Logan County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Logan County in 1860. Logan County judge in 1861. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Sumner County, District 5, p. 160B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Sumner County, District 5, p. 1 of 13 on microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 2, p. 654.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 1, p. 407A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, Clay, p. 317B.

Jay Guy Cisco, Historic Sumner County, Tennessee with Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Cage, and Douglass Families and Genealogical Notes of Other Sumner County Families (Nashville, TN: Folk-Keelin Printing Company, 1909), 118 (accessed on Ancestry.com on August 15, 2019).

KYR-0004-033-0001.

Citation

Malone, John Wesley. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214108 (November 12, 2026).

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