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Vernon Alexander Wheat (Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer and physician)

b. 1819?

Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer and physician. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth B. Owens Wheat in Mercer County, Kentucky, on February 20, 1839. Father of Mary L. Wheat, Nancy J. Wheat, Georgiana A. Wheat, Joshua Wheat, Louisa B. Wheat, William O. Wheat, Richard M. Wheat, Katura Wheat, and Julia F. Wheat. Farmer in Adair County, Kentucky, in 1850. Physician in Boyle County in 1860. Physician in Boyle County in 1863. Served the United States Volunteers as a contract surgeon.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 2, p. 90B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 947.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film 000191856.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 19352.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 5, Boyle County, Kentucky, 1863, p. 57.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Boyle County, KY, July 1863, p. 22.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Roll 510, Application 274620, Certificate.

Citation

Wheat, Vernon Alexander. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280743 (November 12, 2026).

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