Robert Lapsley McGoodwin

Birth Date

1838-08-10

Death Date

1880-10-30

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Caldwell County, Kentucky, clerk and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of P. Bell McGoodwin and Grace W. McGoodwin. Resident and student in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned six enslaved individuals in Caldwell County in 1850. Deputy county clerk in Caldwell County in 1860. Household owned ten enslaved individuals in Caldwell County in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private, master sergeant, and adjutant's clerk from August 17, 1861, to May 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 343B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 779.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 25.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 225A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 512B.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 86-87, 100-01.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0093.
"Robert Lapsley McGoodwin (1838-1880)," Find A Grave, Memorial #18628286, accessed May 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18628286.

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