Bullitt County History

Sheriffs of Bullitt County

  1. 1796 Benjamin Summers - The first fiscal court meeting of Bullitt County was held 28 Feb 1797 at the home of Benjamin Summers. The county of Bullitt had been authorized by the state on 13 Dec 1796.
  2. 1798 Joseph Saunders
  3. 1804 Joseph Saunders
  4. 1810 Nicholas Crist
  5. 1811 Christian James Saunders
  6. 1840 J. Peacock - Might be John Jacob Peacock, born 8 Dec 1765 in New Jersey; died 3 Nov 1845 in Bullitt County. He migrated to Bullitt in 1785. Buried in Hessey Cemtery in Mt. Washington, on the corner of Highway 44 and Branham Way. Peacock's daughter, May, married her cousin (also named John Peacock, who is buried in the Peacock Cemetery on Watergate Drive).
  7. 1841 H. F. Kalfus & John Graham
  8. 1842 Wilford Lee
  9. 1846 James Samuels & Thomas J. Joyce - Thomas J. Joyce, 1811-1879, is buried in the Shepherdsville Pioneer Graveyard.
  10. 1847 H. C. Thomas
  11. 1850 William Wallace Swearingen - William Wallace Swearingen, 1803-1869, is buried in the Shepherdsville Pioneer Graveyard.
  12. 1851 H. C. Thomas
  13. 1863 Wesley Phelps - Wesley Phelps, sheriff during the Civil War period, is buried behind the IGA store.
  14. 1875-76 W. N. Simmons
  15. 1877 Warren Smith
  16. 1878-80 James H. Hays (Hayes)
  17. 1881 James Q. Hughes
  18. 1881-82 Warren Smith
  19. 1883-86 William Dawson
  20. 1887-90 J. W. Rogers
  21. 1891-94 W. B. Cundiff
  22. 1895-98 J. B. Monroe
  23. 1898-1901 James Franklin Collings
  24. 1902-05 Bert Hall
  25. 1906-09 W. B. Campbell
  26. 1910-13 J. B. Myers
  27. 1914 R. S. Rouse
  28. 1915-17 W. S. Rouse
  29. 1918-21 J. W. Croan - J. W. Croan had been State Representative from Bullitt County in 1889-90.
  30. 1922-25 A. L. Roby
  31. 1926-29 W. F. "Frank" Monroe
  32. 1930-33 P. H. Croan
  33. 1934-37 R. E. McAfee
  34. 1938-41 W. F. "Frank" Monroe - Frank Monroe, before becoming sheriff twice, was also county jailer in 1918.
  35. 1942-45 Fred Smith
  36. 1946-49 Hobart L. Roby
  37. 1950-52 Allen R. Hawkins
  38. 1953-57 H. G. "Jack" Bleemel
  39. 1958-61 Tom Hibbs
  40. 1962 Hillary G. "Jack" Bleemel
  41. 1963-66 William R. French
  42. 1967-73 Leonard J. Light
  43. 1974-77 Buddy Shepherd
  44. 1978-81 George Rummage
  45. 1982-93 Lloyd Hill "Shot" Dooley
  46. 1994-2006 Paul Parsley
  47. 2007 Donnie Tinnell

This list of Sheriffs of Bullitt County, Kentucky has been drawn from several sources researched by Betty Darnell, Charlie Long, and David Strange.

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This page was last modified on 08 Oct 2008 .

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