John R. Thomas

Birth Date

1828-02-05

Death Date

1892

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Marion County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Marion County native. Son of Owen Davies Thomas and Emily Lindsey Thomas. Married to Susan Shuck Thomas on February 21, 1859. Married to Maria Lindsey Thomas. Graduated from St. Mary's College in Lebanon, Kentucky. Attorney in Marion County in 1860. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Marion County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Marion County from 1861 to 1867.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 1, p. 74.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 1, p. 21.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1882), 539.
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 4th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 1019-20.
Find A Grave, "John Richard Thomas (1828-1892)," Memorial #101218770, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101218770 (accessed November 21, 2017).

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