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Presley F. Hansbrough (Grant County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier - Capt. 11th Ky. Cav.)

b. 1820?

Grant County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Martha Louise Johnson Hansbrough in Claiborne County, Mississippi, on February 1, 1843. Father of Walter Hansbrough, Harriet Hansbrough, Elvissa Hansbrough, Presley F. Hansbrough, Jr., and William Hansbrough. Farmer in Grant County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Grant County in 1850. Merchant in Grant County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant and captain from September 22, 1862, to May 15, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 292B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 851.

Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 – ca. 1910, NARA RG 15, Application WC122667.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0108.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 276.

Citation

Hansbrough, Presley F.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196879 (November 12, 2026).

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