George W. Purvis

Birth Date

c1832

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Rowan County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret Purvis. Father of America Purvis, Frances Josephine Purvis, Martha A. Purvis, and Alice Purvis. Farmer in Rowan County in 1860. Served in the 40th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from September 29, 1863, to December 30, 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rowan County, p. 618.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rowan County, Morehead, p. 117A.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 439.

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