Military Legacy of Magoffin County, Kentucky And Beyond

MILITARY LEGACY OF MAGOFFIN COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND BEYOND

GENEALOGY ~ PHOTOGRAPHS ~ LETTERS ~ HISTORY

Written And Compiled By Waukesha Lowe Sammons

Daughter of Daskum Combs (1917 - 2005) and Technical Sergeant, Albert Roy "Jake" Lowe (1917 - 1944),

who was awarded a Silver Star Medal for Action Taken on The Fourth of July 1944 in France,

and who was Killed In Action on September 16, 1944 in World War II.

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MAGOFFIN COUNTY, KENTUCKY SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN, MARINES

REMEMBER AND NAME, A - Z

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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

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CAUDILL

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DOCUMENTATION NEEDED TO IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING SOLDIERS LISTED IN THE
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DATABASE:
~ Abel Caudill, Confederate, 13th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, Civil War
~ Abel Caudill, Confederate, 5th Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Civil War
~ Abel Caudill, Union Army, 45th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, Civil War.

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CAUDILL, ABEL (ca 1817 – ca 1898), CURRENTLY NO PROOF OF MILITARY SERVICE.
HOMETOWN: Salyersville, Magoffin County, Kentucky, USA.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Letcher County, Kentucky. Licking Station Fork, Magoffin County, Kentucky. State Road Fork, Magoffin County, Kentucky.
DATE OF BIRTH: circa 1817, Kentucky.
PARENTS: Sarah Webb and Matthew Caudill.
GRANDPARENTS: Mary Yarbrough and James Caudill I.
GRANDPARENTS: Sarah Nelson and James Webb.
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Mary Fields and Stephen Caudill.
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: John Webb and Mary Boone, aunt of famous pioneer frontiersman, Daniel Boone.
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Mary Maugridge and George Boone III.
FIRST-COUSIN-TWO-TIMES-REMOVED: Daniel Boone (1734-1820), famous pioneer frontiersman.
SPOUSE: Mary Ann “Polly” Crace.
SON: Pleasant Caudill (ca 1846 – before the 1880 Census), who married Katherine Ellen “Katy” Wiley, daughter of Nancy Avelena Tackett and Andrew Jackson Wiley, a Union Soldier in the American Civil War; and great-granddaughter of Thomas Wiley, an American Revolutionary War Soldier and Virginia Jean “Jenny” Sellards, who had a Kentucky State Park named in her honor.
SPOUSE: Mary Ann “Polly” Crace.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM:
ENLISTMENT DATE:
DISCHARGE DATE:
RANK:
BRANCH OF SERVICE:
COMBAT ORGANIZATION:
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:
DATE OF DEATH: circa 1898.
CEMETERY: Caudill Cemetery, Magoffin County, Kentucky.
SOURCES: Census. Findagrave. Appalachia Crossroads, Descendants of Hezekiah Sellards, Volume I, by Clayton R. Cox, 1977. Appalachia Crossroads, The Caudill Family by Clayton R. Cox, 1993.
NOTE: I placed my great-great-great-grandfather, Abel Caudill on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.
NOTE: I placed my great-great-great-grandfather, Abel Caudill on my ~ Lowe Stephenson Rose Burchfield Murphy Whitt; Littleton Caudill Salisbury Crace Adams Wiley Webb Boone ~ Paternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

CAUDILL, PLEASANT (ca 1846 – before the 1880 Census), THE HARLAN BATTALION, WHICH BECAME THE 47TH KENTUCKY INFANTRY, WHICH BECAME THE THREE FORKS BATTALION KENTUCKY REGIMENT, U. S. UNION ARMY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
HOMETOWN: Licking Station, Magoffin County, Kentucky, USA.
OTHER RESIDENCE: Letcher County, Kentucky. Salyersville, Magoffin County, Kentucky. State Road Fork, Magoffin County, Kentucky.
DATE OF BIRTH: circa 1846, Kentucky.
PARENTS: Mary Ann “Polly” Crace and Abel Caudill.                                                                                           GRANDPARENTS: Sarah Webb and Matthew Caudill.
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Mary Yarbrough and James Caudill I.
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Sarah Nelson and James Webb.
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Mary Fields and Stephen Caudill.
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: John Webb and Mary Boone, aunt of famous pioneer frontiersman, Daniel Boone.
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Mary Maugridge and George Boone III.
FIRST-COUSIN-THREE-TIMES-REMOVED: Daniel Boone (1734-1820), famous pioneer frontiersman.           GREAT-GRANDSON: Technical Sergeant, Albert Roy "Jake" Lowe, who was awarded a Silver Star Medal for Action Taken on The Fourth of July 1944 in France and was Killed In Action on September 16, 1944 in World War II. Albert married Daskum Combs; their daughter and only child was Waukesha Lowe.
SPOUSE: Katherine Ellen “Katy” Wiley, daughter of Nancy Avelena Tackett and Andrew Jackson Wiley, a Union Soldier in the American Civil War; and great-granddaughter of Thomas Wiley, an American Revolutionary War Soldier and Virginia Jean “Jenny” Sellards, who had a Kentucky State Park named in her honor. Pleasant and Katy Ellen married on 19 November 1868.
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Kentucky.
ENLISTMENT DATE: 25 November 1864 at Irvine, Kentucky.
DISCHARGE DATE: 17 July 1865 at Irvine, Kentucky.
RANK: Private.
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Union Army.
COMBAT ORGANIZATION: Company G, Three Forks Battalion Regiment Kentucky, Union Army, American Civil War.
BATTLES, CAMPAIGNS, THEATRES:                                                                                                                             STATUS: Survived The War.
DATE OF DEATH: before the 1880 Census.
CEMETERY: Esbanera Caudill Cemetery, Flat Fork, Magoffin County, Kentucky.
SOURCES: Appalachia Crossroads, Descendants of Hezekiah Sellards, Volume I, by Clayton R. Cox, 1977. Appalachia Crossroads, The Caudill Family by Clayton R. Cox, 1993. Census. Findagrave. Kentucky Genealogy Trails: 3 Forks Battalion, Kentucky State Troops. Kentucky Marriage Records. National Parks Service Soldiers And Sailors. The Second Battle of Whitesburg, April 16, 1865; bencaudill.com. U. S. Civil War Soldier Records And Profiles.
NOTE: I placed my great-great-grandfather, Pleasant Caudill on my ~ Combs Collins Sumner Adams Holbrook Caudill Kelley Mullins; Brashear Young Campbell Cornett Woods Dorton Asher Bowling Sizemore ~ Maternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.
NOTE: I placed my great-great-grandfather, Pleasant Caudill on my ~ Lowe Stephenson Rose Burchfield Murphy Whitt; Littleton Caudill Salisbury Crace Adams Wiley Webb Boone ~ Paternal Family Tree, that I created on Ancestry.

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