Robert G. Stoner

Birth Date

1838-01-22

Death Date

1898-10-05

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bath County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of George W. Stoner and Nancy Stoner. Student in Bath County in 1850. Household owned fourteen enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Farmhand in Bath County in 1860. Household owned nineteen enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860. Captain in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Rifles Battalion (C.S.A.) from October 12, 1861 to July 1, 1862. Lieutenant colonel in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) from December 17, 1862, to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 113B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 20-21. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 169. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 25. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Country Precinct, p. 28. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 7 and 51. Find A Grave, "Col Robert Gatewood Stoner (1838-1898)," Memorial #557485575, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55748575# (accessed December 18, 2018).

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