Josiah Winstead

Birth Date

c1844

Death Date

1862-04

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Pleasant B. Winstead and Rachel P. Winstead. Resident of Hopkins County in 1850. Farm laborer in Hopkins County in 1860. Served in the 25th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private. Served in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from January 1, 1862 to April 1862. Died at Mound City, Illinois, in April 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 139B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 661.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 962-63.

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