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William Gross (Harlan County farmer and soldier)

b. 1835?

Harlan County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Edmund Gross and Hester Gross. Married to Drucilla Gross. Father of Edmond Gross, Jacob Gross, Elizabeth Gross, and Perline Gross. Farmer in Harlan County in 1860. First lieutenant in the Harlan County Battalion of Kentucky State Militia from October 1862 to January 1863.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harlan County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harlan County, p. 67.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harlan County, District 5, p. 5.

Citation

Gross, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210159 (November 15, 2026).

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