Lewis W. Staples

Birth Date

1837-03-05

Death Date

1926-12-28

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Resident of Union County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1863. Served in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a corporal from January 3, 1865, to September 20, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 1, p. 450B.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 404.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Hopkins County, KY, July 1863, p. 33.
"Lewis W. Staples (1837-1926)," Find A Grave, Memorial #64159338, accessed October 6, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64159338.

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