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Thomas Allison Slayden (Graves County, Kentucky, farmer, postmaster, and justice of the peace)

b. 1807-07-10 d. 1863-10-04

Graves County, Kentucky, farmer, postmaster, and justice of the peace. Virginia native. Married to Letitia E. Beadles Slayden. Father of Lewis S. Slayden, Stokely W. Slayden, William J. Slayden, Martha Ann Slayden, Serena J. Slayden, and Jim W. Slayden. Farmer in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed W. Jackson as a laborer in Graves County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Graves County in 1850. Postmaster of Baltimore in Hickman County from March 1, 1854, to November 4, 1856. Farmer in Graves County in 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Graves County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Graves County in 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 1, p. 439B-440A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 1, p. 128.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 268.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 7.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Hickman County, Kentucky, vol. 14, p. 642-43.

North Carolina Death Certificates, 1911-1965, North Carolina State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, Certificate #685.

"Thomas Allison Slayden (1807-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial #39802100, accessed August 27, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39802100.

KYR-0001-017-0153.

Citation

Slayden, Thomas Allison. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203958 (November 12, 2026).

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