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Fortunatus Shirley (Bath County, Kentucky, tailor and farmer.)

b. 1819 d. 1874

Bath County, Kentucky, tailor and farmer. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth S. Brother Shirley in Bath County, Kentucky, in December 1851. Father of Ann E. Shirley, Elvina Shirley, and James B. Shirley. Tailor in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Farmer in Bath County in 1860. Farmer in Bath County in 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 2, p. 2A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 59.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville Precinct, p. 51A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Bath County, KY, October 1863, p. 142.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film 000273005.

"F. Shirley (1819-1874)," Find A Grave, Memorial 172453161, accessed February 16, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172453161.

Citation

Shirley, Fortunatus. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211639 (November 12, 2026).

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