William Penrose Conner

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1828-08-24

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1910-08-10

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"William Penrose Conner" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000492, (accessed February 25, 2025).

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Bath County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John Harrison Conner and Elizabeth Ewing Nichols. Married to Ann Wilson Conner on July 17, 1855. Father of Felix Conner and Clarance Conner. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Mercantile clerk in Bath County in 1850. Sheriff of Bath County from 1856 to 1862. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860. Captain in the 2nd Battalion Kentucky Mounted Rifles (Confederate) from March 1863 to February 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, 2nd Division. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 2. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0020. "Capt. W. P. Conner's Death," Owingsville Outlook (Owingsville, Ky.), August 18, 1910, p. 1. Find A Grave, "Capt William Penrose Conner (1828-1910)," Memorial #94165734, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94165734/william-penrose-conner (accessed January 31, 2018).

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