Ephraim Boggs Wilhoit

Birth Date

1842-09-19

Death Date

1919-02-18

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Carter County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of James Wilhoit and Matilda Wilhoit. Resident of Carter County in 1850. Farmhand in Carter County in 1860. Served in the 22nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as sergeant and private from December 12, 1861. Reported as away without leave from November 2, 1862, to January 27, 1864. Sentenced by court martial and transferred to the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.), serving as private to January 18, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carter County, District 1, p. 279A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carter County, p. 275.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 122.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0219, 0353.
Find A Grave, "Sgt Ephraim Boggs Wilhoit (1842-1919)," Memorial #112920271, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112920271 (accessed September 24, 2020).

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