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Josiah Stoddard Byers (McCracken County, Kentucky, bookstore clerk, midshipman, captain 3rd Ky Inf CSA)

b. 1824-10-03 d. 1878-12-07

McCracken County, Kentucky, store clerk, sailor, and soldier. Mason County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Byers and Anna Maria Johnston Byers. Married to Jane Leeper Johnson Byers in Livingston County, Kentucky, on November 16, 1854. Father of John Byers, James Byers, and Elizabeth "Mema" Byers. Served in the U.S. Navy as midshipman on the steamer Mississippi, the sloop Vincennes, the Somers, the Vandalia, and the frigate Congress, from 1841 to August 13, 1849. Bookstore clerk in McCracken County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A) as captain from July 19, 1861, to 1863.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, p. 900.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta Ward 2, p. 196A-B.

William Preston Johnston, The Johnstons of Salisbury (New Orleans: L. Graham & Son, Ltd.,1897), 132-39.

U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, Navy Directory: Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1841-1842, vol. 1, 37.

U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, Navy Directory: Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1843, vol. 1, 38.

U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, 1846, 52.

U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, Navy Directory: Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1847, vol. 1, 144.

U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, Navy Directory: Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1850, vol. 1, 111.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1914), KDLA, Roll #994045, Livingston County Marriages, p. 3 of 22 of microfilm.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 142.

Find A Grave, "Josiah Stoddard Byers (1824-1878)," Memorial #39646206 http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39646206 (accessed April 23, 2021).

Citation

Byers, Josiah Stoddard. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201833 (November 12, 2026).

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