Fielding M. Bush Jr.

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c1839

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"Fielding M. Bush Jr." in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00019378, (accessed January 1, 2025).

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Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Clark County, Kentucky native. Son of Fielding Bush and Adelaide Hallard Bush. Married to Sarah Elkin Bush in Clark County, Kentucky, on October 26, 1859. Father of Nora Bush and Adelaide Bush. Attended school in Clark County in 1850. Household owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Clark County in 1850. Farmer in Mercer County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Mercer County in 1860. Household owned an additional four enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1860. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from September 1, 1862, to January 1863. Reported as deserted from Warren County, Tennessee, in January 1863. Signed a loyalty oath to the U. S. Government in January 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 21A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 756.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 57A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Precinct 7, p. 567A.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0010.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Clark County, KY, July 1863.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994027 Clark County Births.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994032, Kentucky Marriages, p. 61.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Clark County Marriages, Film 001943687.
Texas Death Certificates, 1903-1982, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX.
KYR-0001-029-0155.

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