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Thomas Drake (Webster Co. + Hopkins Co. farmer )

b. 1806-06-02 d. 1890-04-17

Hopkins County and Webster County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Married to Anthea Drake. Father of Ann Eliza Drake, Zachary Taylor Drake, Robert Polk Drake, Thomas Jefferson Drake, and Levia H. Drake. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1850. Owned fifteen enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Webster County in 1860. Employed Webster Ashby as an overseer in Webster County in 1860. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons in Webster County in 1860.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 149A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 709.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 479.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 480B.

"Thomas Drake (1806-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial #92145852, accessed November 23, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92145852.

Citation

Drake, Thomas. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203107 (November 12, 2026).

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