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Winchester Elhanan Rees (Clark County, Kentucky, grocer)

b. 1809-06-13 d. 1894-04-04

Clark County, Kentucky, grocer. Kentucky native. Son of Elizabeth Rees. Married to Margaret J. D. Hitt Rees in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on September 17, 1846. Married to Ann V. Hutchcraft Rees in Bourbon County on December 18, 1849. Father of John S. Rees, James D. Rees, Chester Rees, Braxton G. Rees, and Charles S. Rees. Merchant in Mason County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850.Grocer in Clark 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, Mason County, Maysville, p. 33B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 689.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 877.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 124B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film #000851644, p. 346.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film #000183145, p. 220.

"Winchester Elhanan Rees," The Evening Bulletin (KY), April 7, 1894.

"Winchester Elhanan Rees (1809-1894)," Find A Grave, Memorial #25036530, accessed December 3, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25036530.

Citation

Rees, Winchester Elhanan. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280389 (November 12, 2026).

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