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Nathaniel L. Lightfoot (Hancock County, KY, legislator, farmer, physician, HC State Guard)

b. 1823?

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer, physician, legislator, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Emma P Lightfoot. Father of E. W. Lightfoot, Annie W Lightfoot, and Alma Lightfoot. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Breckinridge County in 1847. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860. Served in the Hancock County Home Guard in 1862.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District No 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 12.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Lams Voting District, p. 76.

Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky (Louisville: Richard H. Collins, 1877), 772.

KYR-0002-022-0045.

Citation

Lightfoot, Nathaniel L.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196939 (November 12, 2026).

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