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Francis Marion Sisk (Hopkins County, KY, farmer and pvt. 17th Ky Cav)

b. 1828 d. 1902

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Andrew Sisk and Polly Sisk. Married to Margaret E. Stanley Sisk. Father of Jasper P. Sisk, Julia A. Sisk, James R. Sisk, Andrew F. Sisk, and Ella G. Sisk. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Employed O. P. Sisk as a farm laborer in Hopkins County in 1860. Served in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as private from January 3, 1865, to September 20, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 57B-58A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 799-800.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Precinct 1, p. 17B.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 405.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #21178.

"Francis Marion Sisk (1828-1902)," Find A Grave, Memorial #134385861, accessed October 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134385861.

Citation

Sisk, Francis Marion. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206727 (November 12, 2026).

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