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Oscar F. Orr (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

b. 1821?

Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Son of John Orr and Nancy Orr. Married to Elizabeth Evans Orr in Nicholas County, Kentucky, in February 1849. Father of Virginia M. Orr, Florida Orr, Robert A. Orr, Georgia Orr, Warren Orr, Ann Lee Orr, and Isadore Orr. Farmer in Nicholas County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1850. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Nicholas County from August 30, 1861. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 405 B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 7.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 456-57.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 226 A-B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film #000252407.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Nicholas County, KY, July 1863, p. 22.

"Oscar F. Orr (1821-1904)," Find A Grave, Memorial #83875371, accessed August 31, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83875371.

KYR-0001-017-0191.

Citation

Orr, Oscar F.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203521 (November 12, 2026).

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