William Stratton

Birth Date

c1836

Death Date

1864-07-31

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Carter County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy Akers Stratton. Father of Louis Stratton and Amanda K. Stratton. Farm hand in Carter County in 1860. Served in the 22nd Kentucky Volunteer Regiment as a private from fall 1861 to July 31, 1864. Died of disease while serving in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carter County, p. 281. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Rolls #994027-99405, Carter County Births, 1858, p. 2 of microfilm. Find A Grave, "William Stratton (unknown-1864)," Memorial 32211014, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32211014 (accessed February 4, 2020). Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 124-25.

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