John H. Frost

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1838-04-24

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1896-12-22

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"John H. Frost" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00002665, (accessed December 21, 2024).

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Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John B. Frost and Lucinda Ray Frost. Student in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned fifteen enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Household owned thirteen enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Served in the 25th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as private from October 1861 to December 1861. Served in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as corporal, sergeant, sergeant major, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain from December 1861 to January 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 52A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 695.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 239-240.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 1.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0373.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 940-44, 958-59, and 966-67.
"John H. Frost (1838-1896)," Find A Grave, Memorial #63440690, accessed March 22, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63440690.
Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, 1825-1830, Film #000191851.
"Lucinda Frost (1809-1846)," Find A Grave, Memorial #67162231, accessed November 12, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67162231.

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