Quintus C. Shanks

Birth Date

1811-04-01

Death Date

1900-06-12

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Lucinda Shanks. Father of Philena E. Shanks, Lucie Shanks. Sheriff in Hartford, Ohio County in 1860. Colonel of the Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.A.) from October 11, 1862 until February 14, 1863.

Find A Grave, "Colonel Quintus C. Shanks (April 1, 1811- July 12, 1900)," Memorial #13028779, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13028779 (accessed January 04, 2019). Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 302. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford p. 197.

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