Edward W. Ashby

Birth Date

1826-10-20

Death Date

1898-02-26

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Laura M. Ashby. Father of Thaddeus L. Ashby, William T. Ashby, Rebecca J. Ashby, Nancy L. Ashby, and Martha E. Ashby. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Served in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as corporal from December 3, 1864, to June 24, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 163A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 617.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 407.
"Edward W. Ashby (1826-1898)," Find A Grave, Memorial #69168409, accessed October 14, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69168409.

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