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George Henry Dobyns (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier)

b. 1835 d. 1899

Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Mary E. Robinson Dobyns in Garrard County on September 6, 1856. Father of Richard H. Dobyns. Farmer in Lancaster, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in 1860. Served in the 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as adjutant. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain and assistant quartermaster from February 29, 1864, to June 7, 1864. Honorably mustered out on January 8, 1866.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 701.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 21.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Bryantsville (District 4), p. 481A.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994027-994058, Garrard County Marriages, p. 6.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 960.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky.

Find A Grave, "George Henry Dobyns, Jr. (1835-1899)," Memorial #40959744, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40959744 (accessed October 29, 2020).

Citation

Dobyns, George Henry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211896 (November 12, 2026).

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