Person

Carter Woodford Tiller (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and deputy city marshal)

b. 1818-08-25 d. 1897-01-18

Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and city marshal. Spotsylvania County, Virginia native. Son of George Tiller and Lucy Mills Tiller. Married to Sophronia Beeler Tiller in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on October 10, 1838. Father of George Tiller, Theodore Tiller, Leslie Tiller, Alice Tiller, Mollie Tiller, and Prentice Tiller. Plasterer in Louisville in 1845. Plasterer in Louisville in 1850. Policeman in Louisville from 1852 through 1865. Sergeant at arms of the Louisville Common Council in 1858 and 1859. Deputy city marshal in Louisville in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 15B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville, District 2, p. 364.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 532A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482706, p. 55.

Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 28819, State 410.

John B. Jegli’s Louisville, New Albany, Jeffersonville, Shippingport, and Portland Directory for 1845-1846, (Louisville, The Louisville Journal, 1845), 174.

"Runaway Captured," Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), 26 Aug 1856, p. 3.

"Untitled," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 6 April 1859, p. 3.

"Untitled," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 12 Jan 1863, p. 3.

"Carter Tiller Dead." Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 19 Jan 1897, p. 8.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 246.

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 567.

"Carter W. Tiller (1818-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial 77034411, accessed September 20, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77034411.

Citation

Tiller, Carter Woodford. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202156 (November 12, 2026).

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