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Sylvanus Bagby Wooten (Simpson County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1817-05-17 d. 1872-02-26

Simpson County, Kentucky, postmaster and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Harriett N. Wooten. Father of Junius Wooten, Ellen M. Wooten, and Sylvanus H. Wooten. Merchant in Warren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Postmaster of Smith's Grove in Warren County from January 31, 1851, to October 11, 1853. Farmer in Simpson County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Simpson County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 106B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 10.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 296A.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, Powell-Woodford Counties, p. 376 (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Find A Grave, "Sylvanus Bagby Wooten (17 May 1817-26 Feb 1872)," Memorial #171735747, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171735747 (accessed August 24, 2020).

Citation

Wooten, Sylvanus Bagby. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32279603 (November 12, 2026).

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