John B. Stivers

Birth Date

1821-06-10

Death Date

1893-09-29

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bourbon County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier. Clay County, Kentucky, native. Served in the 3rd Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Infantry during the U.S.-Mexican War. Member of the Masonic order. Carpenter in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as second lieutenant from August 19, 1861, to August 2, 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Eastern Division, p. 627.
William Henry Perrin, History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1882), 550.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 757.
Find A Grave, "John B. Stivers (1821-1893)," Memorial #155842247, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155842247 (accessed August 8, 2017).

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