Person

John Wesley McElfresh (Bracken County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1808?

Bracken County, Kentucky, farmer. Pennsylvania native. Married to Jacintha Eglantine Davis McElfresh. Father of Thomas McElfresh, John McElfresh, Gelina McElfresh, Marion McElfresh, Nathan McElfresh, Sally A. McElfresh, Josephina McElfresh, Elmer McElfresh, and Lorance McElfresh. Farmer in Bracken County in 1850. Farmer in Bracken County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, 438B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, District 1, p. 180-181.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Augusta Precinct, p. 252A.
Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1965, Film #7020637, Bracken County, May 28, 1942 (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Citation

McElfresh, John Wesley. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214216 (November 12, 2026).

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