Rodophil E. Jeter

Metadata
Citation
Documents
Download

Birth Date

1821-11-30

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

"Rodophil E. Jeter" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00007466, (accessed May 17, 2025).

Download XML

Green County and Taylor County, Kentucky, carpenter, provost marshal, postmaster, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Anderson Jeter and Sorrow S. Allen Jeter. Married to Martha A. Jeter. Father of Susan Elizabeth Jeter, Martha A. Jeter, John J. Jeter, and Thomas Rodophil Jeter. House carpenter in Green County, Kentucky, in 1850. House joiner in Green County in 1860. Provost marshal of Campbellsville, Kentucky. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment U.S.A.) as captain from December 31, 1861, to his resignation on April 19, 1862. Postmaster of Campbellsville from May 5, 1864, to June 12, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 120A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Greensberg, p. 91.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 231A.
"Jeter, the Slayer of an Indianapolis Policeman, Proves to be a Thoroughly Bad Man," Daily Tribune (Chicago , IL), August 30, 1882, p. 2.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Taylor County, Kentucky, vol. 28, p. 182.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 859.
Steven L. Wright, Kentucky Soldiers and Their Regiments in the Civil War: Abstracted From the Pages of Contemporary Newspapers, vol 4-5, (Lois N. Miller Genealogical Publications, 2009).
William Henry Perrin, J.H. Battle, G.C. Kniffin, Sketches From Adair, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland, Garrard, Green, Lincoln, Madison, Marion, Mercer, Nelson, Taylor, Washington Counties (Genealogical Reference Company, 1970).

Civil War Governors of Kentucky is always evolving. Help us improve the edition by suggesting a correction or addition to this record.

Suggest a correction