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Timoleon Cravens (Adair County attorney)

b. 1823 d. 1866

Adair County, Kentucky, attorney and representative. Adair County native. Married to Mary M. Waggener Cravens. Father of Jennie Cravens, Thomas Cravens, Isaac Cravens, Montgomery Cravens, and Margaret Cravens. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Adair County from 1853 to 1855. Elector for Kentucky in the 18th presidential election in 1857. Elector for Kentucky in the 19th presidential election in 1861. Owned five enslaved persons in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry, and Modern Activities (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), volume 3, p. 1605. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 370-371, 770. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 2, p. 59. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slaves Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 2, p. 24. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 33. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 3. “Timoleon Cravens,” Find A Grave, "Timoleon Cravens (1823-1866)," Memorial #89138995, http://findagrave.com/memorial/89138995 (accessed February 13, 2018). Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served the United States Colored Troops, 125 Regiment, Company E, 1865, John C. Cravens.

Citation

Cravens, Timoleon. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199054 (November 12, 2026).

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