Vawter, Edmund F.
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Title
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Vawter, Edmund F.
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Alias
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Vawter, E.F.
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Gender
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Male
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Biography
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Edmund F. Vawter was born in Culpeper (Va.), married in 1809, and moved to Boone County (Ky.) with his wife, and several siblings. He appears in the 1810 Census living in Versailles, Woodford County (Ky.). An 1830 Boone County (Ky.) Court Order places him as a County Attorney. In 1837 he served as Boone County's Representative in the General Assembly, Kentucky's state legislature.
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He then appears in Boone County (Ky.) in the 1850 and 1860 censuses living with his wife, Elizabeth, and their grandson (as stated in his 1863 will), F. Vawter Riley. Edmund Vawter's daughter, Margaret, married George Riley in 1838, records of her passing or relocation could not be found.
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Edmund Vawter, along with his siblings, inherited 200 acres in Kentucky due to his father, Lt. William Vawter's having served in the Revolutionary War.
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Birth date
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circa 1781
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Father
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Vawter, William
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Mother
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Rucker, Mary
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Spouse(s)
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Smith, Elizabeth
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Child(ren)
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Vawter, Margaret
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Death date
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circa 1863
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Description
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Enslaved held in 1850: Female, 14 years old, black
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Bibliographic citation(s)
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U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Pension No. R. 10,921
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Boone County Will Book H, page 172
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Source(s)
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Seventh Census of the United States, 1850
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Population Schedules of the Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Slave Schedules
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Eighth Census of the United States, 1860
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Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940
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Kentucky, Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850
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Boone County Court Orders
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North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Vawter Lists
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U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900
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Boone County Will Books
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Find A Grave.com
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Boone Countians in the Kentucky General Assembly, pre-1900