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Edward Callahan Strong (Breathitt County, Kentucky, mill owner and county judge. )

b. 1823-11-05 d. 1911-02-20

Breathitt County, Kentucky, miller, county judge, and soldier. Kentucky, native. Married to Nancy Haddix Strong. Father of Alexander Strong, Greenville Strong, Sarah Strong, Granville Strong, Susan Strong, and Walter Strong. Farmer in Breathitt County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Breathitt County in 1850. Owner of a steam mill in Breathitt County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Breathitt County in 1860. County judge in Breathitt County in 1861. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as first lieutenant from September 7, 1862, to May 6, 1865. Surrendered and paroled at Wilkes County, Georgia, on May 6, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District No. 1, p. 29A.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District 1, p. 390.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District 1, p. 175A.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0113.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994029, Breathitt County Deaths.

T.R.C. Hutton, Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013), 43, 48-49, 61-65.

"Edward Callahan 'Red Ned' Strong (1823-1911)," Find A Grave, Memorial 36693345, accessed June 21, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36693345.

Citation

Strong, Edward Callahan. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211119 (November 12, 2026).

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