James Monroe Hancock

Birth Date

c1820

Death Date

1870-11-28

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

McLean County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Boxley Hancock in Louisa County, Virginia, on October 11, 1841. Father of Mildred Ann Hancock Austin, John C. Hancock, Louisa Hancock Bearkley Robertson, and Mary Ellen Hancock Mosley. Married to Martha Ann Muster Hancock in Oldham County, Kentucky, on April 13, 1853. Father of Peter Preston Hancock, Martha "Mattie" Hancock, Fannie L. Hancock, and Bettie Hancock. Farmer in Oldham County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Oldham County in 1850. Farmer in McLean County in 1860. Employed William J. Mahoney in McLean County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in McLean County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 1, p. 151A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 1, p. 361.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McLean County, p. 29.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, McLean County, p. 432A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McLean County, Calhoun, p. 196A.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Film #000482449, Oldham County Births/Marriages/Deaths, p. 95.
Dodd, Jordan R., Et Al Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850 (Bountiful, Utah: Precision Indexing Publishers, 1999), 421.
Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, McLean County Administrators Bonds, 1849-1911, p. 60.
"James Monroe Hancock (1820-1870)," Find A Grave, Memorial #125084925, accessed April 24, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125084925.

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