Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Married to Mary B. Crow Gresham in Calloway County, Kentucky, on June 20, 1828. Father of Elizabeth Gresham, Edna Gresham, Sally Gresham, Mary G. Gresham, Rebecca Gresham, John Gresham, Blake W. Gresham, America Helen Gresham, and Virginia Gresham. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Princeton in 1860. Employed Houston Riley as a farmhand in Princeton in 1860.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 378B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 36.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Calloway County Marriages, Film #001942719, p. 37.

Citation

Gresham, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214226 (November 12, 2026).

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Petition
Baylor J. Spratt et al. to Beriah Magoffin
1861-01-22

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