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John J. Schoolfield (Bracken County, Kentucky, deputy sheriff and soldier)

b. 1830-06-13 d. 1913-11-11

Bracken County, Kentucky, deputy sheriff and soldier. Maryland native. Son of John Schoolfield and Eliza Schoolfield. Farmer in Bracken County in 1850. Deputy sheriff in Bracken County. Served Schoolfield’s Battery of Artillery (C.S.A.) as a Lieutenant from 1862 to 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, p. 391A-391B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Brooksville, p. 145.
Local and Private Acts of the State of Kentucky, Passed at the Adjourned Session of the General Assembly, Which was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort on Monday, the Sixth Day of December, 1869, chapter 1069, p. 2, in _Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the Adjourned Session (January, 1871) of the General Assembly, which was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort on Monday, the Sixth Day of December 1860, (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1871).
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 480-81.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 286-87.
Find A Grave, "John James Schoolfield (June 13, 1830 - November 11, 1913)," Memorial #31780459, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31780459 (accessed April 4, 2019)

Citation

Schoolfield, John J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214514 (November 12, 2026).

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