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Benjamin H. Howser (Spencer County, Kentucky, farmer and 1st lieutenant in 15th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.))

b. 1833-10-26 d. 1913-04-23

Spencer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John Howser and Sarah Clark Howser. Married to Eliza J. Ruble Howser in Spencer County on May 3, 1852. Married to Mary Howser. Father of Eliza Howser. Farmer in Spencer County in 1850. Farmer in Spencer County in 1860. Employed Mark Rucker as blacksmith, Barnett Jewell as farm laborer, and James Pullam as farm laborer in Spencer County in 1860. Owned one enslaved individual in Spencer County in 1860. Mustered in as 1st lieutenant in the 15th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.) on November 6, 1861.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 1, p. 77b.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 1, p. 21.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 1, p. 2.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 898.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #795946, Certificate #847136.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Spencer County Marriages, Film #000482640, p. 103 of 510 of microfilm.

Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7016153, Spencer County Deaths, File #4522515, p. 1622 of 3311 of microfilm.

Find A Grave, "Benjamin Hardin Howser (1833-1913)," Memorial #110275667, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110275667 (accessed December 1, 2020).

Citation

Howser, Benjamin H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32279792 (November 12, 2026).

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