Person

William Herrin (Fulton County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff)

b. 1824?

Fulton County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Emaline Herrin. Father of Matthew Herrin, Elizabeth Herrin, Mary M. Herrin, Dorcus J. Herrin, and Sarah C. Herrin. Farmer in Fulton County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Fulton County in 1850. Farmer in Fulton County in 1860. Sheriff of Fulton County from 1861 to 1868.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fulton County, p. 130.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fulton County.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fulton County, p. 50.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, For the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861 (Frankfort: John B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 101.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the Regular Session of the General Assembly, Which was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort on Monday, the Second Day of December, 1867 (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1868), 24.

Citation

Herrin, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207114 (November 12, 2026).

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