Harlan Co
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Harlan County

History

In the Eastern Coalfields Region of southeastern Kentucky, Harlan County was formed in 1819 from Knox County. Its county seat, Harlan, is on US-421, about 140 miles southeast of Lexington. Harlan is bordered by the Kentucky counties of Bell, Leslie, Perry and Letcher, as well as by the Virginia counties of Lee and Wise.

Any names below in red have not been matched with a person in the Culpepper family tree. If you can identify any of them, please let us know.

Census Records

The only Harlan Co., KY Culpeppers to appear in any Harlan County census prior to 1930 were three African-American siblings in the 1920 census: James T. Culpepper, (b c 1906), Nina B. Culpepper, (b c 1909), and Rudolph H. Culpepper, (b c 1912) (none yet transcribed). African-American Culpeppers were also found in adjacent Bell County in 1910.

Harlan Co., KY - 1930

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ED48-11, Sheet #9-A, Page 64, Line 5, Louellen, District 2, Harlan, KY
Home rented, Amount=$6, Radio=?, Farm=No
John Culpepper, Head,  M, 32, M, md@27, KY/TN/TN, Miner, Vet=No
(#49444) (Ancestry unknown)
Mary Culpepper, Wife, F, 25, M, md@20, KY/TN/TN
Christine Culpepper, Dau, F, 5, KY/KY/KY
Pauline Culpepper, Dau, F, 5, KY/KY/KY
Louise Culpepper, Dau, F, 3, KY/KY/KY

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ED48-21, Sheet #4-A, Page 246, Line 28, Lynch, Harlan, KY
Home rented, Amount=$11, Radio=blank, Farm=No
Will Culpepper, Head, M, 39, M, md@21, TN/US/US, Motorman for Coal Mine, Vet=No
(#11338)
Alice Culpepper, Wife, F, 35, M, md@17, TN/TN/TN, Not employed
Wille Mae Culpepper, Dau, F, 15, GA/TN/TN
Charlie Culpepper, Son, M, 11, VA/TN/TN
Louise Culpepper, Dau, F, 5,KY/TN/TN
Bobby Culpepper, Son, M, 3, KY/TN/TN
Melvin Culpepper, Son, M, 1, KY/TN/TN

Kentucky Death Registry, 1911-1996

Name, Death, Age at Death, Place of Death, Residence, Vol, Cert#

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Charles H. Culpepper, 15 Jan 1979 at age 60, Harlan Co., KY, 79, 00618 (#49440)

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John Culpepper (born c 1882), 27 Nov 1920 at age 38, Harlan Co., KY, 20, 27127 (#5634)

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Will Culpepper, 27 May 1942 at age 51, Harlan Co., KY, Residence: Lynch Co., KY., 42, 13473 (#11338)

Social Security Death Index

All records of deaths on or before 30 Sep 2003 in which the final benefit was paid in this county.

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Charles Culpepper, 21 Nov 1918 - Jan 1979, Lynch, Harlan Co., KY; SSN, 405-03-5182 issued in KY before 1951 (#49440)

Last Revised: 26 Jan 2006

 
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