James H. Orr

Birth Date

1824-08-04

Death Date

1885-03-15

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Martha A. McCormick Orr in Nicholas County, Kentucky, on August 6, 1845. Father of Pamelia Orr, Mary E. Orr, Thomas J. Orr, Franklin P. Orr, William V. Orr, Addie Orr, and Harvey Orr. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1850. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Nicholas County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Nicholas County in 1861. Served in the 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as sergeant and second lieutenant from September 14, 1861, to August 3, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 53 A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 399-400.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 143 A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, Cooper County, Kelly, p. 429 B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film #000252405.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 178-179.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0066.
"James Harvey Orr (1824-1884)," Find A Grave, Memorial #52996974, accessed August 31, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52996974.
KYR-0001-017-0191.

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