Benjamin P. Estes

Birth Date

1831-12-17

Death Date

1893-07-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Adair County, Kentucky, farmer, physician, and soldier. Adair County, Kentucky, native. Son of James G. Estes and Delsy Estes. Married to Sarah Ann Jones Estes on April 8, 1855. Father of Edward Milton Estes and Florence Laura Estes. Farmer in Adair County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Adair County in 1850. Physician in Adair County in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain and lieutenant colonel from December 30, 1861 to January 12, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 2, p. 53A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 128.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0264.
"Benjamin Peter Estes," Estes Genealogies, 1097-1893, ed. Charles Estes (Salem, MA: Eben Putnam, 1894), 290.
"Deaths Doings," Semi-Weekly Interior Journal (Stanford, KY), July 27, 1893, p. 5.
"Benjamin P. Estes (1831-1893)," Find A Grave, Memorial 80361096, accessed November 29, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80361096.

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