Private Elijah Amburgey
Co F, 5th Kentucky Mounted Infantry (CSA)
1838 -- 1906

Private Elijah Amburgey was born in January 31, 1838 in Perry County the son of Robert Amburgey and Elizabeth Fuller. In 1859 he married Lou Anne Stewart of Letcher County, daughter of William and Polly Crank Stewart. They had 13 children.

He enlisted in Co. F, 5th Kentucky Mounted Infantry for the Confederacy along with his brother Jesse. After the war he settled in Morehead, Rowan County, as a farmer. He died December 31, 1906

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