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Preston Lewis Tippett (Hopkins co. farm laborer and pvt. 8th ky inf (csa))

b. 1840? d. 1861-11-05

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. North Carolina native. Son of William T. Tippett and Arena Tippett. Student in Granville County, North Carolina, in 1850. Farm laborer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 8th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from October 9, 1861. Died of disease on November 5, 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, North Carolina, Granville County, Goshen, p. 190B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 609.

"PFC Preston Lewis Tippett (1840-1861)," Find A Grave, Memorial #67976523, accessed June 22, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67976523.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 380-81.

Citation

Tippett, Preston Lewis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210551 (November 12, 2026).

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