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Mordecai J. W. Ambrose (Bourbon County, Kentucky, Methodist minister, physician and chaplain 7th Ky Cav USA)

b. 1815? d. 1903

Bourbon County, Kentucky, minister, physician, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Mordecai Ambrose and Mahala Sargent Ambrose. Married to Sophia F. Patton Ambrose. Father of Mary Viola Ambrose, France Phila J. Ambrose, Harrison J. Ambrose, Thomas H. Ambrose, and L. D. Ambrose. Physician in Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1850. Methodist minister in Bourbon County in 1860. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as chaplain from August 17, 1862, to July 10, 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 291B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Eastern Division, p. 8.

U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, "Thomas Ambrose," p. 378-79 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 180.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0075.

Find A Grave, "Dr. Mordecai James William Ambrose (1815-1903)," Memorial #40251901, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40251901 (accessed July 24, 2020).

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Ambrose, Mordecai J. W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209709 (November 12, 2026).

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