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Winford Green Bailey (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge)

b. 1803-03-16 d. 1883-04-19

Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge. Lincoln County, Kentucky, native. Son of Elijah Bailey. Married to Catherine J. Embry Bailey in 1839. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for Lincoln County in 1834 and 1835. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Lincoln County and Garrard County, Kentucky, from 1840 to 1844. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in 1860. Judge of the Lincoln County Court in 1862.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District No. 2, p. 302B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District No. 2, p. 261.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 5.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 2.

Find A Grave, "Winford Green Bailey (1803-1883)," Memorial #32023772, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32023772 (accessed May 26, 2017).

"Deaths: Judge Winfred G. Baily," Semi-weekly Interior Journal (Stanford, Ky.), April 20, 1883, p. 3.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, _History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1878), p. 468.

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, "Bailey, Winford Green, 1803-1883 (SC 2243)" (2010). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 1287 ( http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc mssfin_aid/1287).

Citation

Bailey, Winford Green. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214393 (November 12, 2026).

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