Joseph W. Stivers

Birth Date

1830-10-23

Death Date

1881-01-30

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bourbon County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Stivers. Father of Hooker Stivers and Sherman Stivers. Master carpenter in Bourbon County in 1860. Served in the 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry as major from August 21, 1862, to March 13, 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Eastern Division, p. 627.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, North Middletown, p. 341A.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 372-373.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 948.
Find A Grave, "Maj. J. W. Stivers (1830-1881)," Memorial #87779277, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87779277 (accessed March 1, 2019).

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