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William Shelton Parker (Jefferson County. Kentucky, bookkeeper and notary public)

b. 1842-11-19 d. 1936-05-11

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.

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Race
White

Bibliography

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

Citation

Parker, William Shelton. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196800 (November 12, 2026).

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