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Josiah. B Ashby (Hopkins/ Webster County, KY, farmer and prvt 25th/17th Ky Inf (usa))

b. 1833-12-10 d. 1909-11-06

Hopkins County and Webster County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Peter Ashby and Nancy Ashby. Married to Elvira S. Ashby. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Webster County in 1860. Mustered in to the 25th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private on January 1, 1862. Served in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from January 1, 1862, to January 23, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 146A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 467.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 980.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0373.

"Josiah Browder Ashby (1833-1909)," Find A Grave, Memorial #26736684, accessed November 3, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26736684.

Citation

Ashby, Josiah. B. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212562 (November 12, 2026).

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