Person

Salmon Saxton Richardson (Meade County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1822?

Meade County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Wimp Richardson in Meade County, Kentucky, on September 9, 1847. Father of George Richardson, Mary Richardson, Elizabeth Richardson, Eveline Richardson, Adelia Richardson, Kitty Richardson, and Daniel Richardson. Farmer in Meade County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Meade County in 1850. Farmer in Meade County in 1860. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Meade County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky, p. 202A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky, p. 803.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, p. 414.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, p. 30B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, District 4, p. 340B.

“Adelia Frances Craycroft,” Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 8886.


Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Meade County Marriages, Film 000390320,

Citation

Richardson, Salmon Saxton. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281494 (November 12, 2026).

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