Person

Richard Josiah Marshall (Shelby County, KY, lumber mill owner)

b. 1815?

Shelby County, Kentucky, lumber mill owner. Maryland native. Married to Margaret Marshall. Married to Sarah B. Marshall. Father of Ann E. Marshall, James W. Marshall, Elizabeth Marshall, Helen A. Marshall, Mary E. Marshall, Maggie V. Marshall, John W. Marshall, and Nannie B. Marshall. Farmer in Spencer County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1850. Lumber mill owner in Shelby County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved people in Shelby County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 1, p. 75A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 1, p. 4.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 160.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 253B.

Citation

Marshall, Richard Josiah. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201183 (November 12, 2026).

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