Soldier Information
Name: Jerry Bibbs
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Place of Birth: Oldham KY Year of Birth: 1825
Occupation: Farmer
Eyes: Black Hair: Black Complexion: Black
Height in Feet: 5 Inches: 4
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Enlistment Information
Enlistment Date: May 30, 1865
Enlistment Place: Lexington
Enlistment State: KY
Compiled Military Service Record
Document: View
Congressional District: 5th
Company: G Regiment(s): 119th Regt USCI
Mustered Where: Lexington, Kentucky
Mustered Out Date: April 27, 1866
Rank at Muster Out: Private
Notes:
Jerry Bibbs was hospitalized in August 1865, in Covington, Kentucky. In April 1866 he was in the hospital at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Page 14 of the CMSR, Notation, printed in red ink (dated 25 June 1888) stated Jerry Bibbs “mustered out with company and was paid to include 30 April 1866.”
Many thanks to the Oldham County History Center and scholar Robert Bell for providing us with basic information about this soldier upon which our additional research is based.
Soldier Death Information
Died in war? No
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Soldier Pension Information
Pension Card Link: Pension Card
Pension Application Date: November 13, 1874
Application No.: 197277 Certificate No.: 184567
Alternate First Name: Alternate Last Name:
No widow pension card found
No other family pension card found
Pension File Information
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Freedman’s Bank/Freedmen’s Bureau Information
No Freedman’s Bank information found
No Freedmen’s Bureau Documents found
Family Information
Mother First Name: Mother Maiden Name:
Father First Name: Father Last Name:
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Wife #1 First Name: Susan Maiden Name:
Wife #2 First Name: Kittie Maiden Name: Miller
Wife #3 First Name: Maiden Name:
Children: Jane Bibbs
Emma Bibbs 1847
George Bibbs 1856
Henry Bibbs 1866
John Bibbs 1867
Mary 1872 Bibbs
Family Notes:
Jerry Bibbs had apparently been married three times; Susan maiden name unknown and Kittie Miller were two documented wives. He had 6 known children (based on census records).
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1870 Census
1870 Census Link: View
1870 Profession: Farm Laborer
1870 Live with/near former enslaver? Yes
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1870 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1870 Census Notes:
Jerry Bibbs and his family were enumerated twice in the 1870 census. Jerry and Susan, his wife, were listed in both records. Children Henry, John, and Jane were listed in one record. The other record listed their children Emma, George, John, and Mary (and two non-Bibb members — Jack and Henry Turner).
1880 Census
1880 Census Link: View
1880 Profession: Farm Laborer
1880 Live with/near former enslaver? Unknown
1880 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1880 Census Notes:
Jerry Bibbs, his wife Susan, and four of their children (George, Henry, John, and Mary) were enumerated in the same household in 1880.
1890 Census
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1900 Census
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1910 Census
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1920 Census
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Enslaver Information
Name: Sarah Woodsmall Location: Oldham County, Kentucky
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Enslaver Notes:
Sarah Woodsmall was a resident of Oldham County, Kentucky, from at least 1840 through 1880. (Her husband James Woodsmall died in September 1832 (Oldham Co., KY, Will Book 2:95, FHL microfilm 482,431.) She owned 4 slaves in 1850, and 3 ten years later.
1850 Enslaver Census
1850 Census Link: View
1850 Slave Schedule Link: View
1850 Number of Enslaved: 4
1860 Enslaver Census
1860 Census Link: View
1860 Real Estate Value: $5,750 1860 Personal Estate Value: $3,060
1860 Slave Schedule Link: View
1860 Number of Enslaved: 3
1870 Enslaver Census
1870 Census Link: View
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1880 Enslaver Census
1880 Census information not found
Compensation Information
Compensation Application not found