Fortunatus Shirley

Birth Date

1819

Death Date

1874

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bath County, Kentucky, tailor and farmer. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth S. Brother Shirley in Bath County, Kentucky, in December 1851. Father of Ann E. Shirley, Elvina Shirley, and James B. Shirley. Tailor in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Farmer in Bath County in 1860. Farmer in Bath County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 2, p. 2A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 59.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville Precinct, p. 51A.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Bath County, KY, October 1863, p. 142.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film 000273005.
"F. Shirley (1819-1874)," Find A Grave, Memorial 172453161, accessed February 16, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172453161.

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