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Edmonson County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret S.C. Johnson Sweeney in Edmonson County on May 29, 1847. Father of Mary D. Sweeney, Robert E. Sweeney, and Margaret E. Sweeney. Merchant in Edmonson County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Edmonson County in 1850. Farmer in Edmonson County in 1860.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Edmonson County, p. 11B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Edmonson County, p. 2 /4 on microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Edmonson County, Brownsville, p. 106.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Edmonson County Marriages, Film #000367221, p. 7.

Find A Grave, "Thomas Jefferson Sweeney (1802-1869)," Memorial #13057395, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13057395 (accessed June 7, 2020).

Citation

Sweeney, Thomas J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205766 (November 12, 2026).

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Petition
W. Hazelip et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

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