George Taylor Wesley 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 25 Dec 1824 - Casey Co., Kentucky
    Christening: 
          Death: 13 Jul 1897 -  ( at age 72) 1
         Burial: in Bethelridge, Casey Co., Kentucky
 Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children 
1. *Serelda E. Hines (25 Feb 1839 - 30 Jun 1897)
       Marriage: 24 Mar 1856 - Pulaski Co., Kentucky 2 3
Notes
General:
Find-a-Grave Memorial # 21870571:

Son of Thomas 'Tommy' Wesley and Sarah 'Sally' Jones.

George was a veteran of military service during the Civil War. He enlisted on July 21, 1861 and served with the 1st Kentucky Cavalry. He was wounded Oct. 21, 1861 in the 'Battle of Wildcat Mountain', Laurel County, Kentucky, during which Union forces repelled two Confederate attacks aimed at reaching the Wilderness Road. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant Nov. 28, 1962.

George married three times:
1) a Richardson woman (1 child)
2) Catherine Debord (3 children)
3) Serelda E. Hines (5 children)

CENSUS:

<pre>1860 Casey Co., Kentucky, District No 3, p.o. Middleburg; June 15; pg 32
209/209
George T. Wesley 35 Casey Co. $---/$700 Farmer
Lyda " 31
Eliza " 14
John B. " 3
Henry B. " 2
Rachel " 1/12 </pre>

He is not in the Slave Schedule.
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Sources

1 Find-a-Grave, Memorial # 21870571.

2 Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Pulaski > 1799-1870; pg 356; image 89/336. Repository: ancestry.com.

3 familysearch.org, "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWBN-FQH), George T. Wesley, 1856.

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