Person

James M. Bigham (Lyon County, Kentucky, clerk and merchant.)

b. 1811?

Lyon County, Kentucky, clerk and merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Mary T. Collins Bigham in Lyon County, Kentucky, on August 26, 1855. Father of James Bigham. Clerk in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned one enslaved person in Caldwell County in 1850. Merchant in Lyon County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 327B.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 765.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 43B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lyon County Marriages, Film 000321364.

Citation

Bigham, James M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32215115 (November 12, 2026).

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