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John B. Nickell (Wolfe County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

b. 1816 d. 1891

Wolfe County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Baker Nickell. Father of Priscilla Nickell, Frances Elizabeth Nickell, Robert Nickell, Mary Nickell, Andrew Nickell, Henry Nickell, Jane Nickell, Frances Nickell, Perlina Nickell, and Joseph Nickell. Farmer in Morgan County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Morgan County in 1860. Recommended as a justice of the peace in Wolfe County in 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Morgan County, p. 152B-153A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Morgan County, Division 2, p. 357-68.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wolfe County, Precinct 2, p. 410B.

"John B. Nickell (1816-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial #21137352, accessed December 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21137352.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #32733.

KYR-0001-031-0067.

Citation

Nickell, John B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214538 (November 12, 2026).

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