Edward Marcum

Birth Date

1840-09-27

Death Date

1905-10-20

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Breathitt County, Kentucky, farm hand and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Alfred Marcum and Joanna Marcum. Farm hand in Breathitt County in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Breathitt County in 1860. Served in the 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant from February 14, 1863, to March 24, 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District 1, p. 341.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 388.
Find A Grave, "Edward Marcum (September 27, 1840-October 20, 1905)," Memorial #53923229, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53923229 (accessed October 4, 2018).

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