Elisha B. Treadway

Birth Date

1824-08-26

Death Date

1885-11-04

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Owsley County, Kentucky, carpenter, sheriff, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of William W. Treadway. Married to Sarah E. Treadway. Father of Morgan J. Treadway, Laura F. Treadway, Decatur B. Treadway, and Philos Stratton Treadway. Carpenter in Owsley County in 1850. Carpenter in Owsley County in 1860. Employed Malissa J. Eager as a domestic servant and William F. Eager as a carpenter in Owsley County in 1860. Sheriff in Owsley County from 1860 to 1861. Served as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the U.S.-Mexican War. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain and major from September 22, 1861, to September 24, 1864. Served in the Three Forks Battalion of Capital Guards (U.S.A.) as a major from February 1, 1865, to July 17, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owsley County, p. 305A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules,
Kentucky, Owsley County, p. 324.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owsley County, Booneville, p. 306A.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08.
"Elisha Bowman Treadway (1824-1885)," Find A Grave, Memorial #59188538, accessed October 15, 2019, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59188538.
Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from it's Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, vol. 2 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903), 70.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 748-50.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 780, 958.
William Elsey Connelley, History of Kentucky, vol. 4 (Chicago: American Historical Society, 1922), 276.

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