Person

James Turley (Montgomery County, Kentucky, merchant and farmer)

b. 1812-04-13 d. 1896-04-20

Montgomery County, Kentucky, merchant and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Julia Davis Turley. Father of Mary Turley, Amos D. Turley, Henrietta Turley, Zachariah Taylor Turley, Lucy A. Turley, Julia Turley, and Samuel Turley. Merchant in Montgomery County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1850. Farmer in Montgomery County in 1860. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Montgomery 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, Montgomery County, District 2, p. 82B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, District 2, p. 59.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 229.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 77A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Mount Sterling, p. 309B.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 1127.


"James Turley (1812-1896," Find A Grave, Memorial 84926199, accessed October 11, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84926199.

Citation

Turley, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281165 (November 12, 2026).

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