Milton P. Buster

Birth Date

1824-12-06

Death Date

1864-01-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Wayne County, Kentucky, farmer, senator, and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Louisa L. Parker Buster in Wayne County, Kentucky, on November 5, 1846. Father of William Buster, Kate Buster, Sophia Buster, Charles Buster, and Sis Buster. Farmer in Wayne County in 1850. Farmer in Wayne County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Wayne County in 1860. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for Wayne, Pulaski, and Clinton Counties from 1861 to 1864. Judge in Monticello in 1863. Died on January 21, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, Division 1, p. 284A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, p. 236.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, p. 2.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Wayne County Marriages, Film #000591550.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 754.
"Milton P. Buster (1824-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial #93627948, accessed April 27, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93627948.
"Resolutions Upon the Death of Judge M.P. Buster," in Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the Session Which was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort on Monday, the Seventh Day of December, 1863, (Frankfort, KY: The Commonwealth Office, 1864), 153.

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