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William W. Nisbet (Hopkins County, KY, farm laborer )

b. 1836 d. 1911

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farm laborer. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel B. Nisbet and Agnes Pritchett Nisbet. Student in Hopkins County in 1850. Household owned nine enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farm laborer in Hopkins County in 1860. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Clerk in Muhlenberg County in 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 103B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 700-1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 632.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 211A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Muhlenberg County, KY, July 1863, p. 495.

"William Waller Nisbet (1836-1911)," Find A Grave, Memorial #117944453, accessed July 29, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117944453.

Citation

Nisbet, William W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214580 (November 12, 2026).

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