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William H. Mathews (Henry County and Owen County, Kentucky, physician and soldier.)

b. 1839 d. 1872

Henry County and Owen County, Kentucky, physician and soldier. Henry County, Kentucky, native. Son of Caleb Mathews and Frances Mathews. Resident of Henry County, Kentucky in 1850. Physician in Owen County in 1860. Served in the 7th Kentucky Battalion Mounted Infantry (C.S.A.) as a surgeon from June 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1 p. 370A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States(1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 214.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. II (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), p. 332.

"William H Mathews (1839-1872)," Find A Grave, Memorial 87756746, Accessed July 21, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87756746.

Citation

Mathews, William H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205102 (January 18, 2026).

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