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William H. Lusby (Fayette County, Kentucky, marshal and jailer)

b. 1817-10-29 d. 1886-11-06

Fayette County, Kentucky, marshal and jailer. Kentucky native. Married to Matilda B. Lusby. Father of Thomas E. Lusby, Letcher Lusby, William S. Lusby, Henry Lusby, Walter Lusby, and Harrod Lusby. Cabinet maker in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. City marshal in Lexington in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Lexington in 1860. Jailer of the Fayette County Court in Lexington in 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 131B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 377.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p.450.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 255B.

Find A Grave, "William Henry Lusby (1817-1886)," Memorial #21632606, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21632606 (accessed May 19, 2017).

KYR-0001-029-0546.

Citation

Lusby, William H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201765 (November 12, 2026).

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