William S. Woodyard

Birth Date

c1818

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Grant County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Coborn Woodyard in Grant County, Kentucky, in April 1841. Father of Mary E. Woodyard, Sarah A. Woodyard, Elizabeth R. Woodyard, Martha B. Woodyard, and George W. Woodyard. Farmer in Grant County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Grant County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private, corporal, and sergeant from September 22, 1862 to July 14, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 296A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 965.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Grant County Marriages, Film 000266220.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 276-7.

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