William Anderson Hoskins

Birth Date

1826-11-21

Death Date

1897-10-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Clinton County, Kentucky, farmer, miner, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of William Hoskins and Elizabeth Hoskins. Married to Frances E. Hoskins. Father of Mary E. Hoskins, Lucy P. Hoskins, Judith E. Hoskins, Francis Hoskins, and Ida Hoskins. Farmer in Garrard County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Garrard County in 1850. Miner in Clinton County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Clinton County in 1860. Served in the 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from January 31, 1862, to April 23, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Division 1, p. 209A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Division 1, p. 31.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, p. 258.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, p. 353A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Precinct 3, p. 205A.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 256.
"Col. Wm. Hoskins Dead. Former Prominent Resident of Kentucky Passes Away," The Morning Herald(Lexington, Kentucky), October 25, 1897, p. 4.
"William Anderson Hoskins (1826-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial 61539854, accessed August 25, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61539854.

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