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George Wesley Hancock Stouch (Madison County, drug store clerk and soldier)

b. 1842-03-03 d. 1906-11-11

Madison County, Kentucky, drug store clerk and soldier. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, native. Son of William Stouch and Margaret Stouch. Resident in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1850. Drug store clerk in Madison County in 1860. Listed as 1st lieutenant for volunteer reserves raised in Madison County in a letter to Beriah Magoffin in March 1861. Served in the 11th United States Infantry as private, corporal, sergeant major, and second lieutenant from November 30, 1861 to May 18, 1864. Served in the 3rd United States Infantry as second lieutenant and first lieutenant from May 18, 1864.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, York County, North Ward, p. 4A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Division 1, p. 418.
KYR-0002-022-0114
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kansas, Ford County, Fort Dodge, p. 45B.
Find A Grave, "LTC George Wesley Hancock Stouch (1842-1906)," Memorial #23890211, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23890211 (accessed December 7, 2018).
General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), T288, Stork, William—Strauch, Thomas, p. 1103.
“Death of Lieut. Col. Stouch: Remains to Be Interred With Military Honors,” Evening Star, November 12, 1906.
Dan L. Thrapp, Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: P-Z, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991), 1375.

Citation

Stouch, George Wesley Hancock. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199142 (November 12, 2026).

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