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Samuel P. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - 1st Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.)

b. 1831-10-18 d. 1929-01-01

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Joseph Debaun and Mary Debaun. Attended school in Mercer County in 1850. Farmer in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in 1850. Resident of Mercer County in 1860. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant from September 22, 1862, to April 11, 1864. Resigned on account of illness on April 11, 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, p. 315A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, p. 558.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, pp. 41A-B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Cornishville, p. 469B.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0107.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 280.

"Attend DeBaun Funeral," Danville Daily Messenger (Danville, KY), January 4, 1929, p. 2.

"Samuel P. Debaun (1831-1929)," Find A Grave, Memorial 68083003, accessed May 22, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68083003.

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Debaun, Samuel P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197778 (November 12, 2026).

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