Edwin R. Simons

Birth Date

1836

Death Date

1900

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Phillip Simons. Student in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Carpenter in Madisonville in 1860. Served in the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from September 3, 1862, to September 23, 1863. Served in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private and sergeant from January 3, 1865, to September 20, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 53B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 834.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0093, 0141.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 404.
"E. R. Simons (1836-1900)," Find A Grave, Memorial #65058684, accessed October 7, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65058684.

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