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Obadiah Lester (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1806-12-17 d. 1884-05-18

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy Young Lester in Washington County, Kentucky, in 1830. Father of Erasmus Lester, John Lester, Julian Lester, Jesse Lester, Rachel Lester, Elizabeth Lester, Amanda Lester, Martha Lester, Thomas M. Lester, and Obadiah W. Lester, Jr. Farmer in Mercer County, Kentucky in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Farmer in Mercer County, Kentucky in 1860.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, p. 352A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, p. 581.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Precinct 8, p. 578A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Washington County Marriages, Film 000241382.

"Obadiah Winfield Lester Sr. (1806-1884)," Find A Grave, Memorial 35901957, accessed July 8, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35901957.

Citation

Lester, Obadiah. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214850 (November 12, 2026).

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