Wilkes, John P.

Title: Wilkes, John P.
Gender: Male
Member: Wilkes family
Birth date: 1818
Place of birth: Boone County (Ky.)
Father: Wilks, Mills
Mother: Botts, Lucy
Life event(s): Marriage: 8 Jul 1856; Cincinnati (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio)
Spouse(s): Haywood, Mary
Child(ren): Wilks, Samuel Haywood
Death date: 19 Sep 1863
Place of death: Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Death and burial information: Cause of death: Killed in action (Battle of Chickamauga); Buried at Chattanooga National Cemetery
Occupation(s): Day laborer (1860)
Military service: Co. A, 23rd Regiment, Kentucky Infantry; 23rd Regiment, Kentucky Infantry
Allegiance: United States of America
Held rank: Private
Service began: 23 Oct 1861
Resided in: Burlington (Ky.)
Bibliographic citation(s): FindAGrave.com, memorial #2998343; Rhodes, Howard Jacklin. 'The Rhodes Family in America A Genealogy and History', page 407-408
Source(s): Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993; Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; Eighth Census of the United States, 1860; U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865; U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865; Find A Grave.com; U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934; Rhodes, Howard Jacklin. 'The Rhodes Family in America A Genealogy and History', New York: Greenwich Book Publishers, 1959

Item sets: Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Kentucky--Boone County--S-Z; Veterans--Kentucky--Boone County