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Oliver P. Herndon (Clear Creek, Kentucky, farmer and physician)

b. 1826?

Clear Creek, Kentucky, farmer and physician. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin F. Herndon and Theodosia Renfro Herndon. Married Keziah Vance Herndon in Washington County, Tennessee, on March 2, 1846. Father of Richardson Herndon, William Herndon, James Herndon, Benjamin Herndon, Jane Herndon, Thomas Herndon, Caroline Herndon, and Alexandra Herndon. Farmer in Harlan County in 1850. Physician in Clear Creek in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harlan County, District 1, p. 41B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Clear Creek, p. 153.

Tennessee Marriage Records – Microfilm (1780-2002), TSLA, Washington County Marriages, p. 132.

M. Secrist, Knox County, Kentucky History Revealed Through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of its Ancestors (2012).

Citation

Herndon, Oliver P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32215223 (November 12, 2026).

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