Marion C. Doris

Birth Date

c1827

Death Date

1869-09

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Webster County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, postmaster, and court clerk. Tennessee native. Married Sarah E. Doris. Father of Virginia C. Doris, Margaret A. Doris, Mary F. Doris, Emily A. Doris, Henry A. Doris, and George A. Doris. Postmaster in Providence, Kentucky, from December 9, 1854, to August 26, 1863. Merchant in Webster County in 1860. Owned two enslaved individuals in Webster County in 1860. Clerk of the Webster County Court and the Webster Circuit Court in Dixon from 1863 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, District 2, p. 114B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 129.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 484B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Mortality Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, District 2, Subdivision 166, p. 1505.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Webster County, Kentucky, vol. 28, p. 100.
"Marion C. Doris (1827-1869)," Find A Grave, Memorial #173320873, accessed November 5, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173320873.
KYR-0001-004-0137.

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