Samuel South

Birth Date

1833-04-15

Death Date

1889-01-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Breathitt and Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Jeremiah Weldon South and Mary Cockrell South. Married to Malvry Blackwell Jett South in Breathitt County, Kentucky, on October 14, 1856. Father of Mary E. South and Nancy South. Farmer in Breathitt County in 1850. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Breathitt County in 1850. Resident of Franklin County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Franklin County in 1860. Served in the 5th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private and quarter master sergeant from April 25, 1863, to October 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District 1, p. 33A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District 1, p. 657.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 275.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 492B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Arkansas, Izard County, North Fork, p. 222B.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0113.
Kentucky Marriage Records (1852-1914), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994029, Breathitt County Marriages.
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), January 22, 1889.
Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 36527, State 468.

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