Person

Charles Booth Parsons (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, Methodist preacher. )

b. 1805-07-23 d. 1871-12-08

Louisville, Kentucky, actor and minister (Methodist). Hartford County, Connecticut, native. Married to Emily C. Oldham Parsons in Floyd County, Indiana, on December 7, 1830. Father of Charles W. Parsons, Henry B. Parsons, Arabella C. Parsons, Edward Y. Parsons, Frank Parsons, and Clarence W. Parsons. Minister in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Minister in Louisville in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 255A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 134.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 274A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 12, p. 610B-611A.

Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019, Indiana Commission on Public Records, Indianapolis, IN, Floyd County Marriages, Film 000549329.

Charles Booth Parsons, The Pulpit and the Stage; or, The Two Itinerancies: An Historic, Biographic, Philosophic Miscellany (Nashville, TN: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1860).

"Rev Charles Booth Parsons (1805-1871)," Find A Grave, Memorial 136099831, accessed July 12, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136099831.

Citation

Parsons, Charles Booth. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208536 (November 12, 2026).

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