William Gathright

Birth Date

1803-10-31

Death Date

1863-04-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and flour dealer. Virginia native. Son of John Gathright and Mantie Redford Gathright. Married to Rebecca Baker Fible Gathright in Oldham County on September 19, 1843. Father of Martha "Mattie" Gathright. Married to Elizabeth Gathright. Father of Ellen Gathright. Constable in Oldham County in 1850. Partner in Gathright & Ford with Albert Ford in Louisville in 1859. Partner in Lyons & Gathright with James F. Lyons in Louisville in 1859. Merchant in Louisville in 1860. Signed a petition as a flour dealer in May 1861 to appoint W. G. Timberlake as flour inspector.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 1, p. 125B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 689.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Oldham County Marriages, Film #000482447, p. 555.
Henry Tanner, ed., The Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859-60 (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1859), 83, 89, 147, 284.
Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7017481: All Counties, Jefferson County Deaths, File #11300, p. 1806 of microfilm.
Mary Ellen Augsbury and Sarah Hall Johnston, Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR, Vol 044, Washington, DC: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1917, 202.
Find A Grave, "William Gathright (1803-1863)," Memorial #5892926423361, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58929264 (accessed January 23, 2020).
KYR-0001-017-0163.

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