The Proeger Family · Generation 6 — earliest known

Colby B. Quisenberry Jr.

Brother of Louisa Quisenberry · 1822–1907

Colby B. Quisenberry Jr.

Probable

Brother of Louisa Quisenberry · 1822–1907

Born
31 August 1822
Died
20 March 1907
Parents
Colby Burris Quisenberry & Lucy Bush
Sources
10

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE (as Louisa's brother) — his Lexington death certificate names his parents as Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy Bush S493. Louisa's own link to those parents is still probable, from a compiled family book, so the sibling tie shares that doubt

Evidence: His Lexington death certificate, which names Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy Bush as his parents; the 1900 Quisenberry Memorials, which call him Colby Burris Quisenberry's seventh child. Weak or missing: Louisa's own tie to those parents is still probable, so the sibling link shares that doubt. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1822
Born 31 August 1822, Madison County, Kentucky; died 20 March 1907, Avon, Kentucky
Record1847
🆕 His marriage bond, dated 12 July 1847 in Madison County, Kentucky, is for his marriage to Miss Sarah Tribble of that county. He signed it “C B Quisenberry”, and a John B. Bush also signed S644. added 26 September 2026.
Burial1900
🆕 The 1900 family Memorials lists him as the seventh child of Colby Burris Quisenberry. It says he married Sarah Tribble, daughter of Dudley Tribble, on 15 July 1847 and settled in Fayette County near David's Fork church, and it names four children: Ellen, Lucy Belle, Madison and Dudley Tribble S693. added 26 September 2026.
Death1866
🆕 A later son, Colbey M. Quisenberry, was born at Lexington on 19 July 1866 and died, a retired farmer, at Hendersonville, North Carolina, on 20 December 1936. His certificate calls his mother “Mary” Tribble, but she was Sarah S694S644. added 26 September 2026.
Census1860
🆕 The censuses show him farming near Lexington in Fayette County for twenty years: in 1860, 37, with Sarah and five children and D. M. Thompson, 14 S756; in 1870, 48, with his land worth $20,000 and the youngest, Colby M., 7 S757; and in 1880, 57, at Brier Hill, with “Sallie”, three of their children, and their married daughter Lucy B. Carr and her two small children S758. added 26 September 2026.
Census1900
🆕 In 1900, aged 77, born August 1822 and widowed, he still owned his farm in Fayette County (entered “Colby Quisenburg”). With him were his unmarried sons Maddison, 48, Dudley, 43, and Colby Jr., 36, his widowed daughter Bell Cass, 49, and her children Lizzie and Colby Cass Confirmed S1061. The census gives Colby Jr.’s birth as July 1863; his death certificate says 19 July 1866 S694. added 29 September 2026
Census1870
🆕 The 1870 farm schedule for Fayette County (P.O. Lexington) shows his farm: 145 acres improved and 20 of woodland, valued at $13,000, with 5 horses, 5 milch cows, 25 other cattle and 40 hogs; that year it made 85 bushels of wheat and 1,000 of corn Confirmed S1158. The schedule gives no age or family, so the match rests on name and place.
Birth1863
🆕 In June and July 1863 the provost marshal for Kentucky’s 7th District entered Colby Quisenberry, 39, a farmer of Fayette County born in Kentucky, with no former service, on the Class II draft list Confirmed S1173. His father, born 1788, was over age, so this is Colby Jr.; the age is a year or two low.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents
Son of Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush; probable brother of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault

In the record Generation 6 — earliest known

Colby B. Quisenberry Jr. · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

10 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S493Kentucky, U.S., Death Records — City of Lexington, Registered No. 217: Colby B. Quisenberry, 1907. Ancestry record 601240356. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Colby B. Quisenberry [Jr.], widower, born 31 August 1822, Madison County, Kentucky, died 20 March 1907 at Avon, Fayette County; father Colby B. Quisenberry, born Virginia; mother Lucy Bush; informant his son Colby B. Quisenberry Jr.; buried Lexington Cemetery. The informant was a grandson. Three censuses and his brother's 1914 certificate (S494) put the elder Colby's birth in Kentucky.
  2. S644Madison County, Kentucky, marriage bond, 12 July 1847 (original). Ancestry record 2252582. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Bond for the marriage of Colby B. Quisenberry and Miss Sarah Tribble, of Madison County; signed “C B Quisenberry”; surety Jas. B. Turner; also signed by John B. Bush; teste S. V. Rowland, deputy clerk.
  3. S693A. C. Quisenberry, Memorials of the Quisenberry Family (1900), p. 65 (compiled). Ancestry record 4297944054. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Colby Burris Quisenberry Jr., seventh child of Colby Burris Quisenberry, born Madison County 31 August 1822; married 15 July 1847 Sarah Tribble, daughter of Dudley Tribble; settled in Fayette County near David's Fork church; children Ellen (1849), Lucy Belle (1851), Madison (1853) and Dudley Tribble (1856).
  4. S694North Carolina death certificate, 1936, Henderson County. Ancestry record 602171967. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Colbey M. Quisenberry, retired farmer, husband of Mabel Williams; born 19 July 1866, Lexington, Kentucky; died 20 December 1936, Hendersonville; father Colbey Quisenberry, mother “Mary” Tribble. His mother was Sarah: her 1847 marriage bond (S644) and three censuses say so.
  5. S7561860 U.S. census, District 1, Fayette County, Kentucky (P.O. Lexington), p. 13. Ancestry record 39113954. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed C. B. Quisenberry, 37, farmer, real estate $13,200; Sarah, 31; S. C., 10, L. B., 8, M., 6, Dudley, 4, and E. M., 1; and D. M. Thompson, 14.
  6. S7571870 U.S. census, District 2, Fayette County, Kentucky (P.O. Lexington), p. 29. Ancestry record 17791040. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed C. B. Quesenberry, 48, farmer, real estate $20,000; Sarah, 41; Sarah, 21, Lucy B., 18, Madison, 16, Dudley, 14, Elizah M., 11, and Colby M., 7.
  7. S7581880 U.S. census, Brier Hill, Fayette County, Kentucky, ED 59, p. 1. Ancestry record 11554906. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed C. B. Quisenberry, 57, farmer; Sallie, 51; Dudley, 23, Eliza Marie, 21, and Colby M., 16; and his married daughter Lucy B. “Kerr” (Carr), 28, with Lizzie, 2, and Colby Q., 9 months. “Kerr” on the page is the Carr family.
  8. S10611900 United States Federal Census — Fayette County, Kentucky, dwelling 262. Ancestry record 37818001. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed June 1900: Colby Quisenburg [sic], head, born August 1822, 77, widowed, born Kentucky, parents born Kentucky, farmer, owns his farm; Maddison, son, October 1851(?), 48, single; Dudley, son, July 1856, 43, single; Colby Jr., son, July 1863, 36, single; Bell Cass, daughter, October 1850, 49, widowed, mother of 3 children, 2 living; Lizzie Cass, granddaughter, March 1878; Colby Cass(?), grandson, August 1879. The census makes Colby Jr. born July 1863; his 1936 death certificate (S694) says 19 July 1866. The month agrees; the year is unresolved.
  9. S11581870 U.S. census, schedule 3 (agriculture), District No. 2, Fayette County, Kentucky, P.O. Lexington, pp. 2–3, line 38 (September 1870). Ancestry record 280192. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed Colby Quisenberry: 145 acres improved and 20 of woodland, farm valued at $13,000; 5 horses, 5 milch cows, 2 working oxen, 25 other cattle and 40 swine; 85 bushels of winter wheat and 1,000 of Indian corn; $500 paid in wages. An agriculture schedule gives no age or family; the identification rests on name and place. The farm’s $13,000 is the value of this farm, not of all his land ($20,000 in the population census). The same page is filed under Ancestry record 8880192.
  10. S1173U.S. Civil War draft registrations, Schedule II (Class II), 7th Congressional District, Kentucky, consolidated list No. 19, June and July 1863, Thos. H. Moore, Capt. and Provost Marshal, line 17. Ancestry record 584158. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed Fayette County: Quisenberry, Colby, 39, white, farmer, born Kentucky; no former service; no remarks. Class II held married men over 35. Colby B. Jr., born 31 August 1822 and farming near Lexington in 1860 and 1870 (S756, S757), is the only fit: his father, born 1788, was over age. The age is a year or two low, which is common on these lists.

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