Ryland Thompson Dillard

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1797-11-17

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1878-12-26

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"Ryland Thompson Dillard" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00010698, (accessed April 19, 2024).

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Fayette County, Kentucky, baptist minister. Carolina County, Virginia native. Married to Pamelia A. Dudley Dillard in 1820. Father of William Dillard, Mary E. Dillard Pratt, John Dillard, Almira Dillard Yeiser, James Madison Dillard, Ann Rebecca Dillard, and Maria L. Dillard. Attended Rappahannock Academy in Port Royal, Virginia. Law student in Winchester, Kentucky, in 1818. Served in the War of 1812. Attorney in Winchester, Kentucky, from 1821 to 1825. Minister at East Hickman Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1825. Superintendent of public instruction for the state of Kentucky from 1842 to 1848. Baptist minister in Fayette County, Kentucky in 1850. Baptist minister in Fayette County, Kentucky in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette, District 2, p. 228A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette, District 1, p. 465.
Find A Grave, "Ryland Thompson Dillard (1797-1878)," Memorial #79179504, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79179504(accessed May 28, 2019).
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 29.

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