William R. Hydes

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c1822

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1895-04-22

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"William R. Hydes" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00003714, (accessed April 26, 2024).

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Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal. Indiana native. Married to Amanda C. Hydes in 1851. Father of William H. Hydes and Calvert Hydes. Bricklayer in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Elected M. W. Grand Patriarch of The Grand Encampment Oddfellows Lodge in Louisville on July 16, 1856. Plasterer in Louisville in 1860. Household employed one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. City marshal in Louisville in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 292A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 814.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 360.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Ward 6, p. 281B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 550B.
Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 7007129, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 36.
"Born in a Log Cabin. Funeral of William R. Hydes Yesterday Afternoon. A Louisvillian For Seventy-Six Years. A Local Landmark," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), April 24, 1895, p. 6.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Jefferson County, KY, June 1863, p. 153.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 535.

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