Soldier Information
Name: Leroy Wickliffe
Alias:
Place of Birth: Adams MS Year of Birth: 1842
Occupation: Farm hand
Eyes: Dark Hair: Dark Complexion: Dark
Height in Feet: 5 Inches: 4
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Enlistment Information
Enlistment Date: June 28, 1864
Enlistment Place: Louisville
Enlistment State: KY
Compiled Military Service Record
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Congressional District: 5
Company: I Regiment(s): 5th USCC
Mustered Where: Louisville, Kentucky
Mustered Out Date: March 16, 1866
Rank at Muster Out: Private
Notes:
Leroy Wickliffe’s given name appeared in the CMSR in several forms including “Levy” and “Le Roy.” His surname appeared as “Wickliffe” and “Wickliff.” Leroy Wickliffe was originally assigned to the 108th USCI but was transferred to Co. I 5th USCC on August 12, 1864.
Soldier Death Information
Died in war? No
Military Death Date:
Military Death Location:
Military Cause of Death:
Death Date: December 9, 1916
Cause of Death: Apoplexy
Death Certificate
Soldier Pension Information
Pension Card Link: Pension Card
Pension Application Date: July 1, 1889
Application No.: 714827 Certificate No.: 544058
Alternate First Name: Alternate Last Name:
No widow pension card found
No other family pension card found
Pension File Information
Pension File:
Pensioners:
Pensioner County: Nelson County Pensioner State: KY
Number of Pages:
Pension Notes:
Leroy Wickliffe received invalid pension benefits. He survived his wife so therefore there were no records for widow’s benefits.
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:
Siblings:
Wife #1 First Name: Sarah Maiden Name: Stone
Wife #2 First Name: Maiden Name:
Wife #3 First Name: Maiden Name:
Children: Cynthia A. Wickliffe 1870
Lawrence Wickliffe 1871
Julia Wickliffe 1872
John Wickliffe 1874
Henry Wickliffe 1875
Leroy 1877 Wickliffe
Anna B. Wickliffe 1879
Leon Jones Wickliffe 1886
Sadie J. Wickliffe 1888
Eliza Wickliffe 1858
Family Notes:
The maiden name of Leroy Wickliffe’s wife, Sarah, appears in records as variants of “Stone,” “Stowers” and “Steward,” but most frequently as “Stone.” Sarah Stone Wickliffe was born around 1836 and died before the 1910 Census was conducted in April of that year. Sarah Stone Wickliffe is present in the 1900 Census, but by 1910, Leroy Wickliffe is listed as a widower. According to the 1900 Census, Sarah Stone Wickliffe had 15 children, but only six were living as of 1900. No death records have been located for Sarah Stone Wickliffe. Sadie J. Wickliffe Woods (1888-1954) was the last of Leroy and Sarah Wickliffe’s children to reside in Bardstown. She is also the “informant” who signed her father’s death certificate in 1916. By 1930, however, Sadie Wickliffe moved to New Albany, Indiana, and married Horace William Woods (1893-1938).
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1870 Census
1870 Census Link: View
1870 Profession: Laborer
1870 Live with/near former enslaver? No
1870 Real Estate Value: 0 1870 Personal Estate Value: 0
1870 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1870 Census Notes:
1880 Census
1880 Census Link: View
1880 Profession: Laborer
1880 Live with/near former enslaver? No
1880 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1880 Census Notes:
1890 Census
1890 Census information not found
1900 Census
1900 Census Link: View
1900 Profession: None
1900 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1900 Own/Rent: Own 1900 Home Free/Mortgage: Mortgage 1900 Farm/House: House
1900 Census Notes:
1910 Census
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1910 Profession: Laborer
1910 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1910 Own/Rent: Own 1910 Home Free/Mortgage: Free 1910 Farm/House: House
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1920 Census
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1920 Profession: Cook
1920 Ability to Read? Can read Ability to Write? Can write
1920 Own/Rent: Own 1920 Home Free/Mortgage: Free 1920 Farm/House: House
1920 Census Notes:
Leroy Wickliffe died in Bardstown on December 9, 1916. Of his surviving children, it appears that Sadie Wickliffe (1888-1954), who was also the youngest of at least ten children, was the only one still living in Bardstown as of 1920, and likely in her late father’s house at 108 Graves Street. Today, Graves Street is known as “John Fitch Avenue.”
Enslaver Information
Name: Nathaniel Hall Wickliffe Location: Nelson County, Kentucky
Previous Enslaver: Thomas Hall
Enslaver Notes:
Leroy Wickliffe’s first enslaver was Thomas Hall (1795-1856) of Natchez, Mississippi. In 1853, Thomas Hall sent Leroy Wickliffe, and another enslaved person named Jane Wickliffe, to Nelson County, Kentucky, as “gifts” to his son-in-law, Robert Logan Wickliffe (1817-1859). Leroy Wickliffe then passed to Robert Logan Wickliffe’s widow, Rhoda Hall Wickliffe (1818-1884). Sometime before Leroy Wickliffe enlisted in the USCC in 1864, he was enslaved by their son, Nathaniel Hall Wickliffe (1844-1910). The enslaver’s Wickliffe family was active in politics in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Charles Anderson Wickliffe (1788-1869), who was the enslaver’s great-uncle, served as a Kentucky governor and as Postmaster General of the US. He also built the “Wickland,” estate, today a historic site in Nelson County. The city of Wickliffe, Kentucky, seat of Ballard County, was named for Nathaniel Wickliffe’s uncle, Charles Arthur Wickliffe (1819-1862), who served in the Confederate army and died after being wounded at the Battle of Shiloh. Nathaniel Wickliffe also served as an officer in the CSA and, in 1866, was paroled as a prisoner of war in Mobile, Alabama. After the Civil War, Nathaniel Wickliffe moved to Adams County, Mississippi, and married Julia Ogden (1848-1894) of New Orleans. Nathaniel Wickliffe died on March 6, 1910, at the Confederate Old Soldiers’ Home in Biloxi, Mississippi, located on the grounds of “Beauvoir,” the Jefferson Davis home. He was buried in the soldiers’ cemetery at Beauvoir.
1850 Enslaver Census
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1850 Slave Schedule Link: View
1850 Number of Enslaved: 184
1860 Enslaver Census
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1860 Real Estate Value: $48,200 1860 Personal Estate Value: $43,000
1860 Slave Schedule Link: View
1860 Number of Enslaved: 13
1870 Enslaver Census
1870 Census Link: View
1870 Real Estate Value: $13,000 1870 Personal Estate Value: 0
1880 Enslaver Census
Compensation Information
Compensation Application not found