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Richard Waits (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1801-07-12 d. 1886-03-29

Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Vanderen Waits in Harrison County, Kentucky, on September 5, 1839. Father of Mary Waits, James H. Waits, John L. Waits, Margaret A. Waits, and Alfred Waits. Farmer in Harrison County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Harrison County in 1850. Farmer in Harrison County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Harrison County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 1, p. 101B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 1, p. 361.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, p. 613.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, p. 125B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, Film #000216896, p. 82.

"Richard Waits (1801-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial #157011769, accessed January 26, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157011769.

Citation

Waits, Richard. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280528 (November 12, 2026).

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