Greenfield M. Witten

Birth Date

1830-07-24

Death Date

1896-03

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Floyd County, Kentucky, soldier, merchant, and businessman. Appointed commissioner of the Big Sandy Valley Railroad Company in 1854. Served in several leadership positions with the Zebulon Masonic Lodge in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. Merchant in Floyd County in 1860. Colonel of the 38th Enrolled Militia of Floyd County, Kentucky in 1861.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Floyd County, p. 1.
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, F. and A. M., … Annual Communication (Grand Lodge, 1867), 269. “An Act to Charter the Big Sandy Valley Railroad Company,” Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (J. Bradford, Printer to the Commonwealth, 1854) ,503-507. “Greenville Morgan Witten Murder,” Eastern Kentucky Genealogy blogpost, (http://easternkentuckygenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/02/greenville-morgan-witten-murder.html) (accessed on February 3, 2017).
KYR-0002-022-0002.

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