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Note: N5755 Dr. Henry Clay Meriwether
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Henry Clay Meriwether was born in 1829, fifth child of David Holmes Meriwether and Lydia Clark Williams. He appears as an orator on the 1850 Commencement program for Centre College and evidently completed his education as a physician, as he is listed in several family histories as an M.D. During the Civil War he accompanied John Hunt Morgan on the ill-fated raid into Ohio in 1863. Meriwether was captured and imprisoned for the remainder of the war in several notorious prisoner-of-war camps. After the war he resumed his medical practice in Louisville.
He never married and died of consumption in 1873, leaving his property and real estate to brother-in-law Eben Milton.
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Note: N5758 Civil War Service, Confederacy
Henry Clay Meriwether was a Confederate Captain in Company H of the 10th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment Partisan Rangers. He was captured (July 1863) with Gen. John Hunt Morgan in Ohio and was a prisoner-of-war for the remainder of the war in Camp Chase, Ohio State Penitentiary, Fort Delaware and Point Lookout.
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Note: N5756 Courier Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), 21 January 1873 (Tuesday), Page 4
Dr. H. Clay Meriwether, who died yesterday at the residence of Eben Milton on Floyd street, was a well-known citizen and a most estimable gentleman. During the war he was a gallant Confederate soldier, and in both military and civil life won and deserved the high regard of a large circle of friends.
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