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Lazarus Lawson Mainous (Owlsey County, Kentucky, farmer, corporal 14th KY Cav (U.S.A.))

b. 1808-04-14 d. 1895-09-24

Booneville, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Rebecca Flannery Mainous. Father of Cynthia Mainous, Absalom Mainous, Martha J. Mainous, Amanda Mainous, Matilda Mainous, Walter Preston Mainous, John T. Mainous, Mary G. Mainous, Josiah Mainous, Daniel C. Mainous, Elbert L. Mainous, and Hampton Mainous. Farmer in Lee County, Virginia, in 1850. Farmer in Owsley County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as corporal from August 1862 to March 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Virginia, Lee, District 31, p. 340B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owsley, p. 332.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owsley, Travellers Rest, p. 344A.

"Lazarus Lawson Mainous (1808-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial #9029236, accessed May 24, 2019, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9029236.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 380.

Citation

Mainous, Lazarus Lawson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199349 (November 12, 2026).

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