Richard M. Edmondson

Birth Date

c1820

Death Date

1864-10

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Grant County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth "Betsy" Fisher Edmondson in Boone County, Kentucky, on August 13, 1837. Father of Mary J. Edmondson, Ester E. Edmondson, Felix Edmondson, William H. Edmondson, Lucinda Edmondson, Adeline Edmondson, and Sarah Edmondson. Farmer in Grant County in 1850. Farmer in Grant County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a corporal from September 22, 1862 to October 1864. Captured in Jasper County, Georgia, on July 31, 1864. Prisoner of war at Andersonville Prison, in Sumter County, Georgia. Died at Andersonville Prison in October 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 313A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 830.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Boone County Marriages, Film 007719005, p. 17-18.
"Edmondson, Richard M.," Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0107.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 5728.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 278-9.

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