Alfred Smith

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1808-01-12

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1870-10-06

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"Alfred Smith" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00002721, (accessed February 25, 2025).

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Rockcastle County, merchant, soldier, and circuit clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy Smith. Father of Sarah Smith, Martha M. Smith, and Alfred Smith. Merchant in Rockcastle County in 1850. Sheriff of Rockcastle County before 1860. Clerk of the Rockcastle County Court in Rockcastle County in 1860. Major in the 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) from August 21, 1862 to March 24, 1864. Clerk of the Rockcastle Circuit Court in Rockcastle County from 1864 to 1867.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rockcastle County, Northern District, p. 184.
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the Session Which Was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Monday, the Fifth Day of December, 1859, and Ended on Monday, the Fifth Day of March, 1860 (Frankfort, KY: J. B. Major, 1860), ch. 139, p. 337.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rockcastle County, District Not Stated, p. 1.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 372.
Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans who served between 1861 and 1900, Fold3, Civil War Pensions Index, roll no. 57.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rockcastle County, Mt. Vernon, p. 2.

Find A Grave, "Maj Alfred Smith," Memorial #127889229, Elmwood Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Kentucky (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127889229 (accessed March 24, 2017).

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