Thompson Steele Parks

Birth Date

1805-01-11

Death Date

1898-06-30

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Ingram Dorsey Parks in Nicholas County, Kentucky, on January 11, 1838. Father of Mary Parks and Nancy Parks. Farmer in Nicholas County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed William Wall as a laborer in Nicholas County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Nicholas and Fleming counties from 1851-1853. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 475A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 289.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 137A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, Precinct 6, p. 308A.
Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 81869, State 2173.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film 000252402.
"Kentucky Legislature," Louisville Journal (Louisville, KY), September 6, 1851, p. 4.

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