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William Allen May (Louisville, Jefferson County, KY, assistant US marshal)

b. 1836?

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, assistant U.S. marshal. Kentucky native. Son of Gabriel T. May and Eliza E. Tucker May. Attended school in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Assistant U.S. marshal in Louisville in 1860. Assistant U.S. marshal in Louisville in 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 1, p. 72A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 1, p. 207.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482706, p. 163.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 169.

Citation

May, William Allen. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281072 (November 12, 2026).

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