Overton P. Hogan

Birth Date

1808-05-29

Death Date

1885-10-05

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Grant County, Kentucky, farmer and postmaster. Married to Sarah Kendall Hogan in Harrison County, Kentucky on January 17, 1833. Father of Elizabeth Hogan, Amanda Hogan, William N. Hogan, Elihu Hogan, Sarah K. Hogan, and Overton P. Hogan. Postmaster in Williamstown from July 21, 1840, to May 30, 1842. Farmer in Grant County in 1850. Employed Thomas A. Barnett as a laborer in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Grant County in 1850. Farmer in Grant County in 1860. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Grant County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 348B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 111, p. 6 of microfilm.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 980.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 8.
Marriage Records: Kentucky Marriages, (Richmond, KY: Madison County Courthouse), film no. 000216884, p. 471 and film no. 000216896, p. 108.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Casey-Graves counties, Grant County, Kentucky, Volume 12A, p. 604 of microfilm.
Find A Grave, "Overton P Hogan (1808-1885)," Memorial #118647775, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118647775 (accessed on September 6, 2018).

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