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Joseph Gill Roberts (Frankfort, Kentucky, physician and soldier)

b. 1789-02-19 d. 1868-07-03

Frankfort, Kentucky, physician and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Anne "Nancy" Weisiger Roberts. Married to Martha Ann Todd Roberts. Father of Joseph Weisiger Roberts. Served in the War of 1812 and in the Mexican-American War. Physician in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Physician in Franklin County in 1860. Served in the 40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a surgeon from July 29, 1863, to April 25, 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 53B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 384.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 425.

G. Glenn Clift. "Notes on Kentucky Veterans of the War of 1812 (Concluded)," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society vol. 51, no. 175 (1953): 136-52, www.jstor.org/stable/23373743 (accessed May 29, 2020).

The District of Columbia Society of the National Society Sons of the American RevolutionApplication for Membership, John Gill Roberts, dated March 29, 1966 (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Find A Grave, "Joseph G. Roberts (1789-1868)," Memorial #51540737, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51540737 (accessed May 29, 2020).

Citation

Roberts, Joseph Gill. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213740 (November 12, 2026).

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