Josiah B. Spurlock

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c1828

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"Josiah B. Spurlock" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00004958, (accessed April 19, 2024).

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Harlan County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and solider. Kentucky native. Married to Martha Spurlock. Father of George L. Spurlock, Mary L. Spurlock, Sarah Spurlock, Nancy Spurlock, Biron Spurlock, Janes Spurlock, and Curtis G. Spurlock. Farmer and merchant in Harlan County in 1860. First lieutenant and captain in the Harlan County Battalion of Kentucky State Militia from October 1862 to January 1863. Postmaster of Harlan Court House and Spurlock in Harlan County from September 1861 to November 1865.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 884-885.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harlan County, District No. 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harlan County, p. 130.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harlan County, District No. 1, p. 19.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, accessed on ancestry.com (Washington, D.C.: National Archives) (accessed on May 4, 2017).

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