Robert John Richard Tilton

Birth Date

1832-04-27

Death Date

1911-01-05

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nicholas County, Kentucky, clerk and physician. Kentucky native. Son of Robert D. Tilton and Mirah J. Finley Tilton. Married to Annie E. Howe Tilton in on September 25, 1855. Father of Robert D. Tilton and Jennie Tilton. Clerk in Fleming County in 1850. Physician in Nicholas County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 316B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 320. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 4 of microfilm. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, Carlisle, p. 273A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film #000252392, p. 160. Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7016130, Nicholas County Deaths, File #2234, p. 2241 of microfilm.

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