Marmaduke Beckwith "Buck" Morton, Jr.

Birth Date

1840-08-16

Death Date

1913-02-20

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Logan County, Kentucky, clerk and deputy sheriff. Kentucky native. Son of William I. Morton and Clarissa McCleland Morton. Attended Bethel College in Logan County, Kentucky. Merchant clerk in Logan County in 1860. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Logan County in 1860. Deputy clerk of the Logan Circuit Court in 1861. Deputy sheriff in Logan County in 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 1, p. 423.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 1, pp. 377B-378A.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Logan County, KY, February 1864, p. 224.
"'Buck' Morton Dead," The News-Democrat (Russellville, KY), February 28, 1913, p. 1.
John M. Gresham Company, ed., Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Embracing Biographies of Many of the Prominent Men and Families of the State (Chicago: Donohue & Hennerberry, 1896), 63-4.
KYR-0001-020-0401.

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