from 'Kentuckians in Gray': born 1828, Butler County, Kentucky, son of US Sen James Morehead and his wife, Susan Roberts. Attended West Point. Lieutenant in Mexican War. Lawyer in California. State Legislator. Filibusterer in Mexico in the 1950s. Returned to Kentucky, practicing law in Clover port, then settled in Jackson Miss. Married Nancy Hamilton; Sallie Thomas. In early 1861, applied for captaincy in Confederate regular army. Appointed colonel in 1861 by provisional governor of Kentucky, to raise a regiment. Authorized by Confederate military authorities on April 24, 1862, to recruit a Partisan Rangers regiment. Captured June 17, 1862, Hernando Mississippi. Exchanged June 22, 1863. Volunteer aide-de-camp to General Helm. Died in hospital in Troy Alabama and buried in Oakwood Cemetery. His very confusing service record is listed under Morehead's Kentucky Partisan Rangers Regiment, though the unit was never formally organized.
Buried in part of the lot owned by Mary Jarrett Thweat Bell. She nursed and cared for him until his death in 1863. ~ History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, VOL 3.
Buried in part of the lot owned by Mary Jarrett Thweat Bell. She nursed and cared for him until his death in 1863. ~ History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, VOL 3.
from 'Kentuckians in Gray': born 1828, Butler County, Kentucky, son of US Sen James Morehead and his wife, Susan Roberts. Attended West Point. Lieutenant in Mexican War. Lawyer in California. State Legislator. Filibusterer in Mexico in the 1950s. Returned to Kentucky, practicing law in Clover port, then settled in Jackson Miss. Married Nancy Hamilton; Sallie Thomas. In early 1861, applied for captaincy in Confederate regular army. Appointed colonel in 1861 by provisional governor of Kentucky, to raise a regiment. Authorized by Confederate military authorities on April 24, 1862, to recruit a Partisan Rangers regiment. Captured June 17, 1862, Hernando Mississippi. Exchanged June 22, 1863. Volunteer aide-de-camp to General Helm. Died in hospital in Troy Alabama and buried in Oakwood Cemetery. His very confusing service record is listed under Morehead's Kentucky Partisan Rangers Regiment, though the unit was never formally organized.
Buried in part of the lot owned by Mary Jarrett Thweat Bell. She nursed and cared for him until his death in 1863. ~ History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, VOL 3.
Buried in part of the lot owned by Mary Jarrett Thweat Bell. She nursed and cared for him until his death in 1863. ~ History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, VOL 3.
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