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John P. Davis (Taylor County, Kentucky, retired merchant)

b. 1827-01-25 d. 1893-01-10

Taylor County, Kentucky, clerk and retired merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Laura J. Chandler Davis in Taylor County in May 1852. Father of Mary J. Davis, Thomas W. Davis, John R. Davis, Ann E. Davis, and James Davis. Employed by Cromwell Hoskins as a clerk in Campbellsville, Kentucky, in 1850. Retired merchant in Taylor County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Taylor County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 195B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 666.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Division 2, p. 337A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 234A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Taylor County Marriages, 1840-195, Film #000983727, p. 26, p. 110 of 433 of microfilm.

Find A Grave, "John P. Davis (1837-1913)," Memorial 105717193, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105717193 (accessed June 30, 2020).

Citation

Davis, John P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214129 (November 12, 2026).

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