Person

William McClure (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff)

b. 1811

Rockcastle County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza McClure. Father of John McClure, Josiah McClure, Ezekiel McClure, Green McClure, George McClure, and Martha McClure. Married to Amilda McClure. Farmer in Rockcastle County in 1850. Sheriff of Rockcastle County in 1863. Sheriff of Rockcastle County in 1865.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rockcastle County, Southern District, p. 168.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rockcastle County, Mt. Vernon, p. 472.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the Adjourned Session (January 1865) Which Was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Monday, the Seventh Day of December, 1863 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, 1865), ch. 793, p. 170.

Citation

McClure, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212067 (November 12, 2026).

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