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John Eaker, Sr. (Graves County, Kentucky, state senator, state representative, and farmer)

b. 1806? d. 1885-04-14

Graves County, Kentucky, politician and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Harriet Eaker. Father of M. Eaker, William Yancy Eaker, James Franklin Eaker, Thomas B. Eaker, John N. Eaker, Edward Y. Eaker, and A.M. Eaker, Lynn B. Eaker, and Martha Jane Eaker. Married to Rebecca E. Mitchell Eaker in Lyon County, Kentucky, on March 8, 1859. Father of Linah Eaker and John Eaker, Jr. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Graves County from 1844 to 1847. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Graves County from 1848 to 1851. Farmer in Graves County in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Graves County in 1850. Farmer in Graves County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Graves County in 1860. Household owned an additional one enslaved person in Graves County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 1, p. 428B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 1, p. 24.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 339.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 49A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 210B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994046, Lyon County Marriages.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 292.

"A Good Man Gone" Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), April 16, 1885.

Citation

Eaker, John, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200050 (November 12, 2026).

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