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Lorenzo D. Orr (Union County and Webster County, Kentucky, farmer, postmaster, and merchant)

b. 1808?

Union County and Webster County, Kentucky, farmer, postmaster, and merchant. Tennessee native. Father of John F. Orr, Susan Orr, Givens Orr, Martha Orr, E. W. Orr, George Orr, and Eusebia Orr. Married to Anne Marie Ashby Orr in Union County, Kentucky, in July 1850. Father of Alice Orr. Married to Mary J. Orr. Father of Naomi Orr. Farmer in Union County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Union County in 1850. Postmaster of Carlow in Hopkins County from September 6, 1855, to February 6, 1857. Merchant in Webster County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Webster County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 2, p. 466B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 2, p. 324.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 624.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 486B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Union County Marriages, Film #000562200.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Hopkins County, Kentucky, vol. 14, p. 644-45.

Citation

Orr, Lorenzo D.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32215152 (November 12, 2026).

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