The following people were listed as owning slaves in the 1860 census, either in Fayetteville or in the surrounding Prairie Township. Red bars show the number of people owned slaves within the city, and blue bars show those held slaves in the township. Two people — William Cunningham and David Walker — reported owning slaves both within the city and in the township.
Where known, the spelling of names is corrected in this list from the census record.
| NAME – | Number of Slaves Owned |
| Abraham Alen | |
| Andrew Alen | |
| William Alen |
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| Hezekiah Appleby | |
| William Baid |
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| H. Cardwell |
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| Adam Carnahan |
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| Charles Cates |
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| John Conner |
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| John Crawford |
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| Narcissa Crawford | |
| Esther Crockett | |
| Anderson Crouch |
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| T. Cunningham |
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| William Cunningham |
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| Hiram Davis |
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| Charles Dean |
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| Joseph Dickson |
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| James Dorn |
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| John Engard |
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| William Fine | |
| Jacob Fisher | |
| Sarah Francis | |
| Martin Frazer |
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| Henry Fulbright | |
| Benjamin Gains |
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| Lafayette Gregg | |
| Thomas Gunter | |
| Jane Hawkins | |
| James Henry | |
| John Hewit | |
| Nelson Hewit |
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| Louis Hewit | |
| Charles Houghs |
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| Susan Ingram | |
| Hugh Jobe? | |
| Thomas Killin | |
| Matthew Leeper | |
| Frank Linebarger | |
| John Lewis | |
| Joseph Lewis |
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| Robert McClain | |
| William McGarrah | |
| William McIlroy |
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| David McManons | |
| David Moore | |
| Mary Moore | |
| Matilda Moore |
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| George North | |
| Jacob Oxford | |
| William Parker |
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| Albert Peal | |
| James Pettigrew |
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| Zebulon Pettigrew | |
| Ezuch Philipe | |
| Thomas Pollard | |
| Waid Pollard | |
| Margaret Pope | |
| Martha Qualls | |
| Mary Qualls | |
| William Qualls | |
| William Quesenbury | |
| John Reagan | |
| William Reagan | |
| Herman Ridge | |
| Americus Rieff | |
| John Rieff | |
| Joseph Rieff | |
| Wilson Roberts | |
| Benjamin Routh | |
| Eliza Ruston | |
| Anderson Skelton | |
| William Skelton | |
| Preston Smith | |
| James Stirman | |
| Stephen Stone | |
| Isabel Sutton | |
| George Taylor | |
| Isaac Taylor | |
| Whitson Taylor | |
| Henry Tollet | |
| Rolen Tollet | |
| James Tuttle | |
| William Vernon | |
| David Walker | |
| William Wallace | |
| Josiah Washburn | |
| Mary Washington | |
| James Watson | |
| William Watson | |
| Alfred Wilson | |
| William Wilson |
Issac Murphy was the only delegate to vote against secession.
Posted by: Bob Underdown | 07/03/2010 at 05:55 PM
Thanks for that note, Bob. We've corrected the post to remove the mistake.
Posted by: Charlie Alison | 07/06/2010 at 07:59 AM