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Robert DePriest Salmons (Simpson County, Kentucky, merchant and railroad agent)

b. 1815-05-06 d. 1885-01-01

Simpson County, Kentucky, merchant and railroad agent. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth K. Salmons. Father of Allison Salmons, John W. Salmons, James F. Salmons, Mary F. Salmons, Rebecca Salmons, Bert Salmons, Joel Salmons, and Elizabeth Salmons. Merchant in Simpson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Simpson County in 1850. Railroad agent in Simpson County in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Simpson County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 10B-11A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 848.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, Franklin, p. 142.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, Franklin, p. 309A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, Franklin, p. 9B.

Find A Grave, "Col. Robert DePriest Salmons (6 May 1815-1 Jan 1885)," Memorial #21561854, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21561854 (accessed August 25, 2020).

Citation

Salmons, Robert DePriest. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32279608 (November 12, 2026).

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