Person

Adolphus Lafayette Reid (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer, and sheriff. )

b. 1824-11-20 d. 1915-06-11

Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer, and sheriff. Natchez, Mississippi, native. Son of Darious B. Reid and Caroline Roach. Married to Henrietta Powell Reid on April 20, 1848. Father of Charles E. Reid, Lucky C. Reid, Anna M. Reid, Rob Morris Reid, and Edgar Reid. Farmer in Greenup County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Greenup County in 1860. Sheriff in Greenup County from 1862 to 1863. Farmer in Greenup County in 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, District 1, p. 222B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, p. 713.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, p. 79A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, Precinct 1, p. 8A.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994036, Greenup County Births.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #14051.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Greenup County, KY, October 1863, p. 128.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06.

Armstead Mead Prichard Mead Relations: Mead, Brown, Powell, Keyser, Kelly, Trumbo, Austin, Toler, Prichard: Virginia, Kentucky, (Staunton, Va.: A.M. Prichard, 1933), 158.

Nina Mitchell Biggs and Mabel Lee Mackoy, History of Greenup County, Kentucky, (Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphic, 1975) 122, 247.

Citation

Reid, Adolphus Lafayette. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214373 (November 12, 2026).

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