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Jeptha Greenberry Nance (Hopkins County, KY, physician , farmer, pvt 10th KY Cav CSA, POW)

b. 1839 d. 1925

Hopkins County, Kentucky, physician, farmer, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Irene E. Laffoon Nance in Hopkins County, Kentucky, on December 22, 1859. Father of Susan E. Nance and Hardin L. Nance. Physician and farmer in Trigg County in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C. S. A.) as assistant surgeon and private from September 18, 1862. Physician in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1863. Prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio, until April 15, 1864. Signed a loyalty oath to the U. S. government on April 15, 1864.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 142.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 174A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Hopkins County, KY, August 1863, p. 143.

"Jeptha Greenbury Nance (1839-1925)," Find A Grave, Memorial #78008566, accessed December 20, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78008566.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994039, Hopkins County Marriages, p. 145.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 68.

Unfiled Papers and Slips Belonging in Confederate Compiled Service Records, NARA RG 109, Publication M347, Roll 0291.

Citation

Nance, Jeptha Greenberry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210693 (November 12, 2026).

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