Simeon A. Wortham

Birth Date

1833

Death Date

1905

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Garrard County, Kentucky, tailor and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Hiram Wortham. Student in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned eight enslaved persons in Lincoln County in 1850. Tailor in Garrard County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Garrard County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private and sergeant from September 22, 1862 to July 14, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2, p. 302A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 637.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 14.
"Wortham," The Interior Journal (Lincoln, Kentucky), December 19, 1905.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 272.

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