Richard Oldham

Birth Date

c1840

Death Date

1880-01

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Madison County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Madison County native. Married to Minerva N. Ross Oldham on November 9, 1865. Resident in Madison County in 1850. Farmer in Madison County in 1860. Household owned nine enslaved persons in Madison County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as private and assistant wagon maker from September 10, 1862, to July 19, 1863. Prisoner of war at Camp Morton, Indiana, from July 23, 1863, to August 17, 1863. Prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois, from August 17, 1863, to February 6, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, District 2, p. 256A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Division 1, p. 408. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Division 1, p. 23. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Madison County Marriages, Film #000183302, p. 328. Federal Mortality Census Schedules, 1850-1880, and Related Indexes, 1850-1880, NARA Collection T655, Roll Number 19, Census Year 1880, Elliston, Madison County, Kentucky. p. 2. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 88-89.

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