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James H. Orr (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, sergeant and second lieutenant (C.S.A.) )

b. 1824-08-04 d. 1885-03-15

Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Martha A. McCormick Orr in Nicholas County, Kentucky, on August 6, 1845. Father of Pamelia Orr, Mary E. Orr, Thomas J. Orr, Franklin P. Orr, William V. Orr, Addie Orr, and Harvey Orr. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1850. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Nicholas County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Nicholas County in 1861. Served in the 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as sergeant and second lieutenant from September 14, 1861, to August 3, 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 53 A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 399-400.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 143 A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, Cooper County, Kelly, p. 429 B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film #000252405.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 178-179.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0066.

"James Harvey Orr (1824-1884)," Find A Grave, Memorial #52996974, accessed August 31, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52996974.

KYR-0001-017-0191.

Citation

Orr, James H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201331 (November 13, 2026).

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