Person

Steven S. Whitehurst (Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, clerk)

b. 1827 d. 1875-05-19

Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Maria Matheny Whitehurst on June 12, 1849. Father of Gilford Whitehurst, E. F. Whitehurst, Mimi Whitehurst, Mary Whitehurst, M. Helen Whitehurst, Lizzie M. Whitehurst, and Carrie Whitehurst. Printer in Randolph County, Illinois, in 1850. Clerk of the Sangamon County Circuit Court from 1860 to 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, Randolph County, Chester, p. 75A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Sangamon County, Springfield, p. 558.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Sangamon County, IL, June 1863, p. 438.

History of Sangamon County, Illinois: Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens (Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Company, 1881), p. 282.

John Carroll Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson & Co., 1876), 480.

"Steven Strode Whitehurst (1827-1875)," Find A Grave, Memorial 163757280, accessed June 22, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/163757280.

Citation

Whitehurst, Steven S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200799 (November 12, 2026).

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