William D. Ratcliffe

Birth Date

c1824

Death Date

c1879

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bracken County, Kentucky, tavern keeper and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Julia A. Coons Ratcliffe. Father of Stiles Ratcliffe, Edegle "Edd" Ratcliffe, Kate Ratcliffe, William Ratcliffe, and J. F. Ratcliffe. Tavern keeper in Bracken County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Bracken County in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from September 9, 1862, to September 17, 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Brooksville, p. 146.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, District 1, p. 169B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Berlin, p. 294B.
Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, NARA Publication M1845, RG 92, Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General,.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994029, Bracken County Births, p. 3.
Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Bracken County, May 19, 1879.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 258.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 943.

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