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Alfred Gosney (Morgan County, Indiana, blacksmith and resident)

b. 1797?

Morgan County, Indiana, blacksmith and resident. Kentucky native. Married to Lucy Hawes Gosney in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on May 14, 1818. Father of Margaret Gosney Hancock, Margaret S. Gosney Callender, John Gosney, Catherine Gosney, Richard Gosney, Julia Gosney, and Newton Gosney. Blacksmith in Oldham County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Oldham County in 1850. Employed Achilles Callender as a blacksmith in Oldham County in 1850. Resident of Morgan County, Indiana, in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 1, p. 143A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Morgan County, Gregg, p. 782.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482706.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Oldham County Marriages, Film 000482447.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Oldham County Marriages, Film 000482448.

Citation

Gosney, Alfred. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214471 (November 12, 2026).

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