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Joel W. Ridgell (Knox Co, Ky, minister, attorney, judge, and lieut col 7th KY Inf (U.S.A.))

b. 1815-04-11 d. 1868-05-07

Knox County, Kentucky, minister, attorney, judge, and soldier. Clay County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sarah Ridgell. Father of William Ridgell. Minister in Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Barbourville in 1860. Judge of the Knox Circuit Court in Knox County in 1860. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel from September 22, 1861, to c1864.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 338A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Barbourville, p. 28.

"Joel Washington Ridgell (1815- 1868)," Find A Grave, Memorial #75090654, accessed June 21, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75090654.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 748.

KYR-0001-021-0012.

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Ridgell, Joel W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209254 (November 12, 2026).

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