William B. Parker

Birth Date

c1789

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Maysville, Kentucky, hotelkeeper and jailer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Parker. Father of William C. Parker, James P. Parker, Lucy Jane Parker Ball, Mason B. Parker, W. W. Seth Parker, and Orlando B. Parker. Hotelkeeper in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Maysville in 1850. Jailer in Maysville in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville District 1, p. 38A-B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville District 1, p. 689.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville Ward 2, p. 317.
Find A Grave, "William B. ‘Red Buck’ Parker (1789-1868)," Memorial #187489855, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187489855/william-b.-parker (accessed July 26, 2021).

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