Person

Edmund H. Parrish, Sr. (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1805-11-16 d. 1876-07-03

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of William Parrish and Mary Parrish. Married to Milly S. Clarkson in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on January 20, 1825. Father of Elizabeth Parrish Withers. Married Virginia Briston Parrish in Clark County, Kentucky, in April 1834. Father of Archibald Parrish, Mary M. Parrish, and Edmund H. Parrish, Jr. Married to Eliza A. G. Parrish. Postmaster for Clintonville in Bourbon County from March 1, 1836, to September 4, 1839. Farmer in Boone County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned thirty-two enslaved persons in Boone County in 1850. Farmer in Scott County in 1860. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, District 2, p. 169A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 275A-B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, District 2, p. 353.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 968.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 226.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, White Sulphur, p. 345A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film 000183145.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Clark County Marriages, Film 00193687.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Bourbon County, Kentucky, vol. X, p. X.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Adair-Carter counties, Kentucky, Volume 12A, p. 258.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994054, Scott County Deaths.

"E.H. Parrish, Sr.” (1805-1876)," Find A Grave, Memorial 101684559, accessed February 1, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101684559.

Citation

Parrish, Edmund H., Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213290 (November 12, 2026).

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