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Hiram H. Smith (Webster Co., Ky, farmer and state rep)

b. 1807?

Webster County, Kentucky, farmer and politician. Kentucky native. Father of Ben F. Smith, Rachael D. Smith, Charles Smith, John Smith, and Willie Smith. Married to Elizabeth Von Nichols Rice Smith in Hopkins County on April 22, 1856. Stepfather of Laban M. Rice and Nannie Rice. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hopkins County in 1840. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hopkins County from 1859 to 1861. Farmer in Webster County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Webster County in 1860. Household owned an additional nine enslaved persons in Webster County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 540.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 482A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, Dixon, Subdivision 166, p. 8.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Film # 994039: Hopkins County Marriages, 1856, p. 12 of 61 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 182.

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 753-56.

"Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, August 19, 1840 - February 18, 1841" (1840). Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 22. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ky statejournals/22

"Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, December 5, 1859 - March 5, 1860" (1859). Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 39. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ky statejournals/39

Citation

Smith, Hiram H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197620 (November 12, 2026).

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