Person

Tarleton Arterburn, Sr. (Louisville, KY, slave dealer)

b. 1811? d. 1883-11

Louisville, Kentucky, slave dealer. Kentucky native. Father of Mary Eliza Shipp (Arterburn). Negro dealer with brother, Jordan Arterburn, in Louisville in 1850. Negro trader with Jordan Arterburn in Louisville in 1860. Slave dealer with Jordan Arterburn in Louisville in 1861.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 185B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 688.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 2, p. 1068.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 485A.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 293D.

Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1965), KDLA, Film # Film 7019155: All Counties, Louisville File #4555, p. 1259 of microfilm.

Kentucky County, District and Probate Courts. Jefferson County Wills, Vol 12-13, 1883-1887, pp. 53-54, pp. 32-33 of microfilm (accessed through ancestry.com on June 10, 2020).

Find A Grave, "Tarlton Arterburn (1834-1884)," Memorial 203268005, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203268005 (accessed June 10, 2020).

The Courier-Journal, (Louisville, Kentucky), 26 November 1883, p. 8.

Citation

Arterburn, Tarleton, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214544 (November 12, 2026).

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