Charles Alexander Marshall

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1809-05-02

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1896-02-12

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"Charles Alexander Marshall" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00009896, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Mason County, Kentucky, farmer, legislator and soldier. Married to Phebe Ann Parton Marshall in Mason County, Kentucky, on September 12, 1833. Father of Maria Marshall, Fannie Marshall, Lizzie Marshall, William Marshall, Paxton Marshall, Lucy Marshall, Sarah "Polly" Marshall, and Benjamin Marshall. Member of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1840. Farmer in Mason County in 1850. Member of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850. Member of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1857. Farmer in Mason County in 1860. Owned twenty-four enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850. Owned twenty-nine enslaved persons in Mason County in 1860. Colonel in the 16th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) from January 9, 1862, to May 1, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 102B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 753.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 107.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Washington, p. 522B-523A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Pendleton County Marriages, Film #000281842, p. 57.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 294.
Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography, Thomas William Herringshaw, ed. (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1914), p. 43.
Find A Grave, "Col Charles Alexander Marshall (1809-1896)," Memorial #80287127, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80287127# (accessed December 17, 2018).

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