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Edwin Shivel (Rockcastle County, KY, farmer & corporal Rockcastle Co & Lincoln Co home guards)

b. 1827?

Rockcastle County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mary McCall Shivel in Rockcastle County on August 9, 1853. Father of Phillip Shivel and James Shivel. Married to Sarah Shivel. Farmer in Fayette County in 1850. Farmer in Rockcastle County in 1860. Commissioner of Common Schools of Rockcastle County from 1862 to 1863. Served in Rockcastle and Lincoln County Home Guards (U.S.A) as a corporal from May 7, 1862, to July 7, 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 124A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rockcastle County, Mt. Vernon, p. 585.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994027-994058, Rockcastle County Marriages, p. 3 of 21 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 486.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 870.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 75.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 105.

Citation

Shivel, Edwin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196552 (November 12, 2026).

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