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Leonidas Metcalfe (Nicholas County, KY, farmer and colonel 7th KY Cav (USA))

b. 1819-03-09 d. 1868-07-07

Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy Thatcher Metcalfe. Father of Henry Clay Metcalfe and Elizabeth Metcalfe. Married to Sarah Ellen Victor Metcalfe on February 8, 1853. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Infantry as a captain in the Mexican-American War. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1850. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1860. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from August 1862 to October 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 405B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 423.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 144B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film #000252392, p. 82.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film #000252409.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 181, 208.

"Leonidas Metcalfe (1819-1868)," Find A Grave, Memorial #9606886, accessed June 12, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9606886.

Citation

Metcalfe, Leonidas. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212229 (November 12, 2026).

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