Person

Asa Blanchard Gatewood (Montgomery County, Kentucky, clerk and farmer)

b. 1830-04-28 d. 1887-05-28

Montgomery County, Kentucky, clerk and farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Charles O. Gatewood and Mary L. Gatewood. Married to Jessie A. White Gatewood in Albemarle County, Virginia, on November 2, 1852. Clerk in Montgomery County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned at least two enslaved persons, including Malinda, in Montgomery County in 1854. Owned at least four enslaved persons, including Charlotte and Wash, in Montgomery County in 1855. Owned at least two enslaved persons, including Charlotte, in Montgomery County in 1856. Owned at least four enslaved persons, including Fillmore and Dick, in Montgomery County in 1858. Owned at least six enslaved persons, including Louisa, Jourdan, and Jeff, in Montgomery County in 1859. Farmer in Montgomery County in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1860. Owned at least two enslaved persons, including Teller, in Montgomery County in 1861. Reported as the owner of William Gatewood upon his enlistment in the United States Colored Troops at Camp Nelson, Jessamine County, in 1864.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, District 1, p. 6B-7A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 203.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 89B.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, District 116, p. 280A.

Marriage Bonds and Consent Papers, 1850-1853, Albemarle County Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, Library of Virginia, Roll 80, Film 007736736.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994049, Montgomery County Births.

Registers of Death, 1887, Milwaukee Vital Statistics, Milwaukee Public Library, vol. 49, p. 341, Roll 219, No. 1578.

Descriptive List of Volunteers, 1864, Records of the Colored Troops Division (1863-1894), NARA RG 94, M1894, Entry 391, vol. 58, No. 3236.

"A. B. Gatewood (1830-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial 84919236, accessed October 24, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84919236.

Citation

Gatewood, Asa Blanchard. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281240 (November 12, 2026).

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