John J. Thomas

Birth Date

1813-08-08

Death Date

1895

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Christian County, Kentucky, farmer, soldier, and politician. Virginia native. Married to Kate Thomas. Father of Lewis M. Thomas, John Q. Thomas, Pendleton Thomas, and Annie Thomas. Clerk in the United States Post Office in Washington, D.C. during the James K. Polk administration. Farmer in Christian County in 1850. Farmer in Christian County in 1860. Employed R. B. Cary as overseer in 1860. Owned fifty enslaved persons in Christian County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1853. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861. Member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. Served as an aide to General John “Cerro Gordo” S. Williams in the Army of the Confederate States from 1862 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District No 2, p. 376A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 749.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 299.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, 11th Civil District, p. 6.
Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 235-236.
Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353.
Find A Grave, "John J. Thomas(1813-1895)," Memorial 61832469, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61832469 (accessed November 14, 2019).
KYR-0004-033-0001.

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