Jasper W. Muir

Birth Date

1823-12-11

Death Date

1907-04-10

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer, attorney, and notary public. Indiana native. Married to Mary E. Wickliffe Muir in December 1852. Father of Nathaniel Muir, Willie Muir, Halstead Muir, Jasper Muir, and Charles Muir. Farmer in Nelson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Nelson County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860. Commissioned as a notary public for Nelson County on February 5, 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, p. 324A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 181.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 109B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown, p. 72B.
Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Film # 000481509, Nelson County, December 14, 1842 (accessed via ancestry.com).
Kentucky, Birth Records, 1847-1911, Nelson County, March 13, 1855, p. 3 (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Find A Grave, "Jasper W. Muir Sr (1828-1907)," Memorial #100680547, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100680547/jasper-w-muir (accessed February 6, 2019).

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