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Alfred Johnston (Marshall County, farmer, politician, and soldier)

b. 1813-01-22 d. 1873-09-09

Marshall County, Kentucky, farmer, politician, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Jordena Howard Johnston. Father of Isaac O. Johnston, Larendia Johnston, Magdalene Johnston, William H. Johnston, Martha Johnston, Alfred H. Johnston, Mary C. Johnston, and Harriett H. Johnston. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Marshall and Callow Counties from 1847 to 1849 and in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1850. Farmer in Marshall County in 1850. Farmer in Marshall County in 1860. Appointed to a district committee by the Kentucky Democratic Party state convention in January 1859. Owned one enslaved person in Marshall County in 1860. Captain, major, and lieutenant colonel in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) from 1861 to 1863.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marshall County, p. 487A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marshall County, p. 136. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marshall County, p. 6. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 543. Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges & Co. State Printers, 1850. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 92. “The Democratic State Convention,” Louisville Daily Courier, January 12, 1859. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 86. Find A Grave, "Alfred Johnston (1813-1873)," Memorial #64498613, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64498613 (accessed August 17, 2018).

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Johnston, Alfred. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199519 (November 12, 2026).

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