Person

John B. Wilkerson (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1818?

Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of George Wilkerson and Saloma WIlkerson. Married to Elizabeth Bean Wilkerson in Nelson County, Kentucky, on May 14, 1863. Father of Julia Wilkerson. Convicted of shooting Electius Adams in Nelson County in March 1858. Farmer in Nelson County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 290A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 216.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 116B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Fairfield, p. 129B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film 001929414, p. 567.

Citation

Wilkerson, John B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281395 (November 12, 2026).

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