Joel W. Ridgell

Birth Date

1815-04-11

Death Date

1868-05-07

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Knox County, Kentucky, minister, attorney, judge, and soldier. Clay County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sarah Ridgell. Father of William Ridgell. Minister in Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Barbourville in 1860. Judge of the Knox Circuit Court in Knox County in 1860. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel from September 22, 1861, to c1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 338A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Barbourville, p. 28.
"Joel Washington Ridgell (1815- 1868)," Find A Grave, Memorial #75090654, accessed June 21, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75090654.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 748.
KYR-0001-021-0012.

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