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John A. Gossett (Harrison County, Kentucky, cooper and farmer)

b. 1812?

Harrison County, Kentucky, cooper and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Eleanor Goodnight Gossett in Harrison County, Kentucky, on November 7, 1832. Father of Elizabeth Gossett, Darius Gossett, Eliza Gossett, Abraham Gossett, John Gossett, Ellen Gossett, Thomas Gossett, and Ann Gossett. Cooper in Harrison County in 1850. Farmer in Harrison County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Harrison County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 152A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 528.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 116A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, Film #000216896, p. 7.

Citation

Gossett, John A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280522 (November 12, 2026).

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