James F. Denton

Birth Date

1841-05-19

Death Date

1934-01-18

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bath County, Kentucky, soldier. Bath County native. Son of William Denton and Catharine Denton. Resident of Bath County in 1850. Resident of Bath County in 1860. Served in the 24th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as sergeant from December 31, 1861, to August 17, 1862. Served in Captain Bussey’s Bath County Rangers as a second lieutenant from December 11, 1863, to April 1, 1864. Served in the First Regiment Capital Guards, Frankfort Battalion, as a second lieutenant and first lieutenant from September 1, 1864, to February 6, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Wyoming, p. 55A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 219.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 174-75, 760, 887-88.
Find A Grave, “James Fauntain Denton (1841-1934)," Memorial # 20149672, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20149672/james-fauntain-denton (accessed January 15, 2021).

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