Ezra Lewis Foulks

Birth Date

1823-01-12

Death Date

1917-02-25

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Christian County, Kentucky, postmaster and photographer. St. Clair County, Illinois, native. Son of Joseph Foulks and Sally Marshall Foulks. Married to Sarah A. Browder in Logan County, Kentucky, on February 23, 1852. Father of Ellen Foulks, Thomas M. Foulks, William E. Foulks, and Sallie B. Foulks. Photographer in Logan County, Kentucky, in 1850. Appointed postmaster at Pembroke, Christian County, Kentucky, on May 24, 1854. Photographer in Christian County in 1860. Photographer in Christian County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, Russellville, p. 135A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 686.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 391A.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 3669.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Logan County Marriages, Film 002134965.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Christian County, Kentucky, vol. 14.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Christian County, KY, July 1863, p. 8.
"Hopkinsville's Oldest Man," Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, KY), February 27, 1917, p. 1.
"Ezra Lewis Foulks (1823-1917)," Find A Grave, Memorial 75523870 , accessed July 14, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75523870/ezra-lewis-foulks.

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