Timothy Holmes

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1802-05-16

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1881-04-09

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"Timothy Holmes" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00003862, (accessed April 25, 2024).

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Hancock County, Kentucky, physician and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Blincoe Holmes in Hancock County, Kentucky, on March 3, 1831. Father of Benjamin M. Holmes, Lewis T. Holmes, Hester Holmes, Sophronia Holmes, William Holmes, and Amelia Holmes. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hancock County in 1847. Physician in Hancock County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1850. Physician in Hancock County in 1860. Employed Dominic White as a gardener in Hancock County in 1860. Served in the Hancock County Home Guard in June 1861. Served as the Presiding Judge of the Hancock County Court in 1862. Founding member of the Hancock County Agricultural Society created during the 1865 to 1866 session of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Member of the Masonic Order at Hancock Lodge, No. 115 in Hawesville, Hancock County.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 267B-268A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 268.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 950.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Pendleton County Marriages, Film 000495729, p. 3.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins’ Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Collins & Company, 1878), 305.
"An Act to Incorporate the Hancock County Agricultural Society," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the . . . Monday, the Fourth Day of December 1865 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 522-23.
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, at a Grand Annual Communication, in the City of Louisville, Commencing on Monday, the 21st Day of October, 1867 (Frankfort, KY: Frankfort Commonwealth, 1867), 111-12.
KYR-0002-022-0048.
KYR-0001-029-0110.

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