Person

Thomas Manley Newman (Hancock County farmer and postmaster)

b. 1805? d. 1867-12-23

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer and postmaster. Virginia native. Married to Nancy Newman. Father of Albert H. Newman. Owned three enslaved persons in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in 1860. Farmer in Hancock County in 1850. Postmaster of of Hawesville, Kentucky from June 1859 to November 1860. Member of the Masonic Order at Hancock Lodge, No. 115 in Hawesville, Kentucky.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, accessed on ancestry.com (Washington, D.C.: National Archives) (accessed on March 22, 2017). Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of kentucky, at a Grand Annual Communication, in the City of Louisville, Commencing on Monday, the 21st Day of October, 1867 (Frankfort, Ky.: Frankfort Commonwealth, 1867), 111-112.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 112.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 10.

Find A Grave, "Manley Newman (January 15, 1805-December 23, 1867)," Memorial #124441551, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124441551 (accessed April 11, 2017).

Citation

Newman, Thomas Manley. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198175 (November 12, 2026).

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