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C. Thompson Worley (Lexington, Kentucky, auctioneer and mayor)

b. 1818 d. 1887-08-22

Lexington, Kentucky, auctioneer and mayor. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Worley. Father of Frank H. Worley and Joshua Worley. Married to Elizabeth Worley. Farmer in Jessamine County, Kentucky, in 1850. Auctioneer in Lexington in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Mayor of Lexington in 1862.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 2, p. 71.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 92.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 50.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 2, p. 109.

William Henry Perrin, ed., History of Fayette County, Kentucky (Chicago, IL: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1882), p. 271.

Find A Grave, "Caleb Thompson Worley (1818-1887)," Memorial #28671418, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28671418/caleb-thompson-worley (accessed April 27, 2017).

Citation

Worley, C. Thompson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202858 (November 12, 2026).

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