Person

Morton L. Asbury (Harrison County, KY, plasterer)

b. 1832?

Harrison County, Kentucky, plasterer. Kentucky native. Son of Elijah Asbury. Married to Elizabeth W. Harding Asbury in Harrison County, Kentucky, on April 19, 1860. Father of James Asbury and Minnie Asbury. Farmer in Harrison County in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Harrison County in 1850. Plasterer in Harrison County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 1, p. 89B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 1, p. 369.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, p. 695.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Robertson County, Kentontown, p. 398A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, Film 000216896, p. 200.

Citation

Asbury, Morton L.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281563 (November 12, 2026).

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