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George Frederick "Fred" Pentecost (Christian County, Kentucky, clerk, soldier, minister.)

b. 1843-09-23

Christian County, Kentucky, clerk, soldier, minister. Albion, Edwards County, Illinois, native. Married to Ada Webber in Christian County, Kentucky, on October 6, 1863. Father of Lucy Pentecost. Attended Georgetown College in Scott County, Kentucky. Clerk in Henderson County, Kentucky, in 1861. Served as chaplain of the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry (U.S.A.) from September 13, 1862 to September 23, 1863. Mustered out September 23, 1863. Minister in 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, New York, Kings County, South Half of the 11th Ward of Brooklyn, p. 225B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Christian County Marriages, Film 000465564.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 92.

"Pentecost, George Frederick," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. IV., eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 720.

KYR-0001-020-1155.

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Pentecost, George Frederick "Fred". Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206595 (November 12, 2026).

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