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Malachi M. Lynch (Hopkins County, KY, farmer (and guerilla))

b. 1827-10-10 d. 1896-01-25

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer and guerilla. South Carolina native. Son of Mary Lynch. Married to Rebecca J. Franklin Lynch. Father of Charlie T. Lynch, Dixie Lynch, and William Lynch. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Arrested for aiding Confederate guerillas in Hopkins County on November 28, 1862. Prisoner of war at Johnson's Island, Ohio, on December 4, 1862. Prisoner of war at Washington on March 23, 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 74B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 681.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 716.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Charleston, p. 92B-93A.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0244.

"Malachi M "Mack" Lynch (1827-1896)," Find A Grave, Memorial #191866243, accessed August 4, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191866243.

Citation

Lynch, Malachi M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211216 (November 12, 2026).

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