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Orlean Bishop (Hopkins County, Ky, county court clerk )

b. 1811 d. 1862

Hopkins County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah J. Bishop. Father of Mary A. Bishop, Marcellus W. Bishop, Emeline S. Bishop, Ada C. Bishop, and Sarah S. Bishop. Deputy clerk in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. County court clerk in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 168A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 716.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 807.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 218B-219A.

Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Hopkins County Executor's Bonds, 1852-1932, p. 108.

"Orlean Bishop (1811-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial #111077719, accessed September 29, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111077719.

Citation

Bishop, Orlean. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203550 (November 12, 2026).

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