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Hannah Toliver

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Birth Date

c1835

Gender

F

Race Description

Black

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Person

"Hannah Toliver" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00005660, (accessed March 17, 2025).

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Jeffersonville, Indiana, washerwoman. Kentucky native. Married to George Toliver in 1849. Washerwoman in Jeffersonville in 1860. Arrested and sentenced to prison in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1864 for her work helping fugitive enslaved persons gain their freedom.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Indiana, Clark County, Jeffersonville, p. 47.
"Black History Month," The Courier Journal (Louisville, Ky.), February 24, 2009, p. B2.

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