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John S. Nixon (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and soldier)

b. 1822 d. 1875

Covington, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Ohio native. Married to Mary A. Clemon Nixon. Father of Eudora Nixon, Edward Nixon, George Nixon, Emma Nixon, Edith Nixon, and Willard Nixon. Attorney in Covington in 1860. Attorney in Covington in 1861. Served in the 41st Regiment Kentucky Infantry as a private from September 4,1862 to October 4, 1862. Tax collector in Covington in 1863. Tax collector in Covington in 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 3, p. 616.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 861.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 2, p. 362B
Bureau of the Census. Official Register of the United States, Containing a List of the Officers and Employees in the Civil, Military, and Naval Service. [Sept. 30, 1863] p. 39. (accessed through ancestry.com on June 24, 2019)
Find A Grave, "John S. Nixon (1824-1875)," Memorial #92200762, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92200762 (accessed June 24, 2019)

Citation

Nixon, John S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211868 (January 18, 2026).

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