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Samuel Brown (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, farmer and private in 20th KY)

b. 1822? d. 1890?

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married Sarah C. McDonnel Brown in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, on October 13, 1842. Father of Thomas O. Brown, Sarah Brown, Samuel Brown, Mary Brown, and Asfonesta Brown. Farmer in Muhlenberg County in 1850. Farmer in Muhlenberg County in 1860. Served in Company K of the 20th Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a private from January 6, 1862 to October 1862.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 1, p. 187A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 2, p. 765-6.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County Marriages, Film #000557316, p. 1.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 64-5.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #470464, Certificate #307805.

Citation

Brown, Samuel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280336 (November 12, 2026).

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