Benjamin F. Nelson

Birth Date

1843

Death Date

1928

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Emaline Nelson. Resident of Greenup County, Kentucky in 1850. Farmer in Lewis County in 1860. Served in the 16h Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as second sergeant and first sergeant from January 28, 1862, to July 15, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, District 2, p. 160B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, p. 892.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 930.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 294.
U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #986130, Certificate #701311.
Find A Grave, "Benjamin Franklin Nelson (1843-1928)," Memorial # 122265535, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122265535 (accessed January 2, 2021).

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