Person

James William Kirkwood (Hopkins County, KY, farmer )

b. 1823-01-29 d. 1906-02-19

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Martha Kirkwood. Father of Marshall W. Kirkwood, Fredonia. E. Kirkwood, Agatha A. Kirkwood, Demarius A. Kirkwood, Lenoria Kirkwood, and Martha Kirkwood. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 72A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 772-73.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 217A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Seminary, p. 141B.

"James William Kirkwood (1823-1906)," Find A Grave, Memorial #67775882, accessed October 7, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67775882.

Citation

Kirkwood, James William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214177 (November 12, 2026).

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