Person

James B. Spillman (Green County and Hickman County farmer )

b. 1817-02-26

Green County and Hickman County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Sophia Spillman. Father of John Spillman, David Spillman, Mary Spillman, William Spillman, Hilliard Spillman, Sallie F. Spillman, Milton J. Spillman, David H. Spillman, Josephina Spillman, and Thomas P. A. Spillman. Farmer in Green County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Green County in 1850. Farmer in Clinton in 1860. Employed M. D. L. Knox as a teacher and James L. Price as a farmer in Clinton in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Clinton in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 120A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 201.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Clinton, p. 523-24.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Clinton, p. 201A.

"James B. Spillman (1817-1888)," Find A Grave, Memorial #65553975, accessed September 15, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65553975.

Citation

Spillman, James B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280222 (November 12, 2026).

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