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Benjamin S. Coffey (Adair County, Kentucky, miller, farmer, and quartermaster (U.S.A.))

b. 1831?

Adair County, Kentucky, miller, farmer, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Jane S. Coffey. Married to Elizabeth R. McBeath Coffey in Adair County on August 9, 1854. Father of George A. Coffey and Carrie T. Coffey. Clerk in Adair County in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Adair County in 1850. Miller in Adair County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Adair County in 1860. Farmer in Adair County in 1863. Served in the 9th Kentucky Infantry (U. S. A.) as quartermaster from November 26, 1861 to June 9, 1862.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 2A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Division 2, p. 83.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, First District, p. 62.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Division No. 2, p. 12A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Adair County Marriages, p. 2.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Adair County, KY, July 1863, p. 81 (Accessed via ancestry.com).
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0229.

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Coffey, Benjamin S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201793 (November 12, 2026).

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