William J. N. Welborn

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c1826

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1862-04-16

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"William J. N. Welborn" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00014463, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Hickman County, Kentucky, livery stable keeper and solider. Tennessee native. Married to Rebecca McLamore in Gibson County, Tennessee, on November 17, 1862. Father of J. K. P. Welborn, George M. Dallas Welborn, William O. B. Welborn, Trousdale M. Welborn, Bernetta C. Welborn, and Hickory J. Welborn. Livery stable keeper in Trenton, Tennessee, in 1850. Employed J. Bailey as a laborer in Trenton in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Trenton in 1850. Resident of Columbus, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Hickman County in 1860. Household owned an additional enslaved person in Hickman County in 1860. Served in the 7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as first lieutenant and major from September 26, 1861, to April 16, 1862. Died from wounds received at the Battle of Shiloh on April 16, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Gibson County, Trenton, p. 274B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Gibson County, Trenton, p. 573.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Columbus, p. 469.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Moscow District, p. 204B, 205B.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0066.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 338-39, 374.
Tennessee State Marriages, (1824-1860) ,Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Gibson County Marriage Bonds, p. 124.

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