Person

John M. Smith (Woodford County, Kentucky, cabinetmaker and Versailles trustee)

b. 1813 d. 1890-07-21

Woodford County, Kentucky, cabinetmaker and politician. Woodford County, Kentucky, native. Filed a marriage bond to Catherine Ann Burch Smith in Jessamine County, Kentucky, on June 24, 1835. Father of John H. Smith, Albert C. Smith, Eudora Smith, Andrew F. Smith, Charles W. Smith, Thomas W. Smith, Kate Smith, Gertrude Smith, and Lou Smith. Cabinetmaker in Woodford County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1850. Delegate for Woodford County at the Kentucky Democratic Convention in Frankfort in 1859. Cabinetmaker in Woodford County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1860. Member of the Versailles Board of Trustees in Woodford County in 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1, p. 443 A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1, p. 602, 649.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 828-29.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 490A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 525 A.

“Democratic Meeting in Woodford.” The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), Nov. 11, 1859.

"John M. Smith (1813-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial #100361174, accessed August 22, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100361174.

KYR-0001-017-0151.

Citation

Smith, John M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214343 (November 12, 2026).

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