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Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Father of Julia B. Oden, M.E. Oden, E. E. Oden, G. M. Oden, N. U. Oden, and Bela H. Oden. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1860. Commissioned lieutenant colonel in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) on August 16, 1862.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

KYR-0001-020-1687.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 180-181.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, Carlisle, p. 282.

Citation

Oden, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198816 (November 12, 2026).

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Leonidas Metcalfe et al. to S. B. Brown
1862-08-21

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