Francis M. Shea

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c1825

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"Francis M. Shea" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020719, (accessed December 27, 2024).

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Louisville, Kentucky, soldier, tobacconist, and bricklayer. Ohio native. Married to Elizabeth Farley Shea in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on June 2, 1851. Father of Emma Shea, William Shea, Sarah Shea, and Susan Shea. Served in the U.S-Mexico War in the 4th Artillery as a private from May 18, 1847, to May 4, 1848. Tobacconist in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Bricklayer in Louisville in 1860. Bricklayer in Louisville in 1861. Bricklayer in Louisville in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 151B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 694.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707.
Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M233, 1847 Jan- 1849 June, Mexican War Enlistments, p. 251.
Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 527.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 223.

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