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William Burton Parker (Hopkins County, Kentucky, miller, farmer)

b. 1820-03-15 d. 1890-09-30

Hopkins County, Kentucky, miller and farmer. Virginia Native. Married to Mary Jane Crabtree Parker in Christian County, Kentucky on July 18, 1841. Father of Emily Parker and Harriet Parker. Married to Martha A. Crabtree Parker in Christian County, Kentucky, on January 3, 1852. Father of William Henry Parker, Capatola Parker, and Jessie Parker. Miller in Christian County in 1850. Employed Emsley Henderson and Samuel Gamble as laborers in Christian County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hopkins County from 1857 to 1859. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned five 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, Christian County, District 2, p. 419A.

Kentucky. General Assembly. House of Representatives., "Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, December 7, 1857 - February 17, 1858" (1857). Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 35. University of Kentucky. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kystate journals/35.

_Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, _Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 343.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 815.

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

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Seminary, p. 136B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Christian County Marriages, Film #004260144, p. 18.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994031, Christian County Marriages, p. 208.

Find A Grave, "W. B. Parker (1820-1890)," Memorial #67063626 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67073626/w.-b.-parker (accessed March 3, 2021).

Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7016189, Hopkins County Deaths, File #1131.

Citation

Parker, William Burton. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204580 (November 12, 2026).

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