Person

James R. Wilson (Montgomery County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1805-12-31 d. 1870-12-15

Montgomery County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Hannah Lydia Jones Bailey Wilson in Bath County, Kentucky, on October 14, 1838. Father of Nancy "Nannie" Evelyn Wilson, Winona Wilson, and James R. Wilson, Jr. Farmer in Montgomery County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1850. Owned at least two enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1855. Owned at least two enslaved persons, including Tilda, in Montgomery County in 1859. Farmer in Montgomery County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, District 1, p. 28B-29A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, District 1, p. 79.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 26B-27A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 12.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Aarons Run, p. 228B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film 000273004.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994039, Montgomery County Births, p. 173.

John Marshall Prewitt, "The Tapp, Wilson, and Prewitt Families of Montgomery County," Kentucky Ancestors, vol. 40, no. 2 (Winter 2004): p. 95-96.

"James R. Wilson (1805-1870)," Find A Grave, Memorial 84926969, accessed October 10, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84926969.

Citation

Wilson, James R.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281161 (November 12, 2026).

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