William Shelton Parker

Birth Date

1842-11-19

Death Date

1936-05-11

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jefferson County, Kentucky, clerk, bookkeeper, and notary. Kentucky native. Son of Amos P. Parker and Almira Parker. Married to Anna Maria Parker. Father of Alice B. Parker. Student in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned eight enslaved people in Louisville in 1850. Clerk in Louisville in 1860. Clerk and bookkeeper for C.N. Warren & Company in Louisville in 1862. Notary public in Louisville in 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 240A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 830.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 345.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 9, p. 231B.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 191.
"William Shelton Parker (1842-1936)," Find A Grave, Memorial #115777719, accessed November 1, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115777719

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