John J. Swetnam

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1837

Death Date

1919-05-02

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White

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"John J. Swetnam" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00012390, (accessed April 29, 2025).

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Bath County, Kentucky, soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Joseph Thomas Swetnam and Mary “Polly” Atchison Swetnam. Student in Bath County in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Served in Captain Bussey’s Bath County Rangers as a first lieutenant from December 11, 1863, to April 1, 1864. Served in the First Regiment Capital Guards, Frankfort Battalion, as a first lieutenant from February 1, 1864, to his resignation on July 14, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 77B
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 256.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 760, 887.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, 1814-1846, Film #000273004, p. 702 of 848 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #827.465, Certificate #608.584.
Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1965), KDLA,Film 7016219: All Counties, 1918-1919, File #15289, p. 2146 of 3360 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Find A Grave, "Lieut John Jay Swetnam (1837-1919)," Memorial #68469752, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68469752/john-jay-swetnam
(accessed December 15, 2020).

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