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William Rannells Vance (Hickman County, Kentucky, postmaster.)

b. 1805 d. 1885

Hickman County, Kentucky, postmaster. Kentucky native. Married to Eleanor G. Field Vance in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on May 29, 1830. Father of Abner F. Vance, Hester Vance, Samuel D. Vance, Ann B. Vance, and Ella Vance. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County from 1836 to 1841. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County from 1843 to 1844. Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, from 1847 to 1850. Merchant in Louisville in 1850. Owned fifteen enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Postmaster in Hickman County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned four enslaved persons in Hickman County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 323A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Columbus, p. 463.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Columbus, p. 205A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Columbus, p. 427A.

Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954, Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000817868.

Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. CXLII (Washington, D.C.: Judd & Detweiler, 1935), 105.

"Judge Wm. R. Vance Dead," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 25, 1885, p. 8.

J. Stoddard Johnson, ed., Memorial History of Louisville: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1896, vol. I (Chicago: American Biographical Publishing Co., 1896), 134.

John Kleber, ed., "Vance, William Rannell," in The Encyclopedia of Louisville (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 909.

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Vance, William Rannells. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281108 (November 12, 2026).

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