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George Porter Slaton (Hopkins County, KY, laborer and farmer )

b. 1829-05-08 d. 1889-03-21

Hopkins County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Martha C. Slaton. Father of Eugene H. Slaton. Laborer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Hopkins County in 1860. Household owned an additional six enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1863.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 161A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 635.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 211B.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Hopkins County, KY, Month 1863, p. 153.

"George Porter Slaton (1829-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial #8344573, accessed October 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8344573.

Citation

Slaton, George Porter. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196942 (November 12, 2026).

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