Rutherford W. Sisk

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1820-10-01

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1876-04-03

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"Rutherford W. Sisk" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00015159, (accessed April 19, 2024).

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Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Susan Sisk. Father of Travis W. Sisk, Mary E. Sisk, James M. Sisk, Sarah E. Sisk, Martha A. Sisk, William M. Sisk, and Charles B. Sisk. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Employed Tavis Sisk as a farm laborer in Hopkins County in 1860. Served in the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as private from October 18, 1861 to May 16, 1865. Captured at Fort Donelson, Tennessee, on February 16, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 49A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 797.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0127.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 394-95.
"Rutherford William Sisk (1820-1876)," Find A Grave, Memorial #108903322, accessed July 22, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108903322.

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