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William B. Parker (Maysville (Mason County), Ky, hotelkeeper & jailer)

b. 1789?

Maysville, Kentucky, hotelkeeper and jailer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Parker. Father of William C. Parker, James P. Parker, Lucy Jane Parker Ball, Mason B. Parker, W. W. Seth Parker, and Orlando B. Parker. Hotelkeeper in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Maysville in 1850. Jailer in Maysville in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville District 1, p. 38A-B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville District 1, p. 689.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville Ward 2, p. 317.

Find A Grave, "William B. ‘Red Buck’ Parker (1789-1868)," Memorial #187489855, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187489855/william-b.-parker (accessed July 26, 2021).

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Parker, William B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203088 (November 12, 2026).

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