Walker Hawkins Bell

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1836-08-26

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"Walker Hawkins Bell" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00013880, (accessed April 19, 2024).

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Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of William Henderson Bell and Catharine R. Hawkins Bell. Married to Mary E. Carpenter Bell in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, on April 4, 1861. Father of William H. Bell. Farmer in Hustonville, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned twelve enslaved persons in Hustonville in 1860. Served in the 19th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as private, corporal, and sergeant from January 2, 1862, to June 26, 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Hustonville, p. 123-24.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 29.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Casey County, Hustonville, Rolling Fork District, p. 250B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Rockcastle County Marriages, 1805-1934, p. 207 of 214 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
George Norbury Mackenzie & Nelson Osgood Rhoades, eds., Colonial Families of the United States of America, vol. 2, Bell Family (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1966, rpt. 1995), 15 (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0319.
U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #569201, Certificate #501873.

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