Robert C. Speed

Birth Date

1844

Death Date

1898

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, student. Kentucky native. Son of Robert B. Speed and Laura A. Speed. Student in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Student in Hopkins County in 1860. Household owned seven enslaved persons 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 25, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 49A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 697.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 589.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 209A.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 960-1.
"Robert C . Speed (1844-1898)," Find A Grave, Memorial #62695835, accessed January 18, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62695835.

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