Person

William Murphy (Nelson County, KY, circuit court clerk)

b. 1833?

Nelson County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Constance Murphy. Father of Felix Murphy, Mary Murphy, and Lola Murphy. Clerk of the Nelson Circuit Court in Nelson County from 1860 to 1861. Owned two enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District no. 1, p. 192.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 109B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, p. 239A.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08.

Citation

Murphy, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213041 (November 12, 2026).

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