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Thomas Dunaway (Louisville, Kentucky, postmaster, farmer, and merchant)

b. 1811? d. 1868

Louisville, Kentucky, postmaster, farmer, and merchant. North Carolina native. Married to Martha Ann Neal Dunaway in Oldham County, Kentucky, on December 29, 1838. Father of Columbus W. Dunaway and George Thomas Dunaway. Postmaster for Centerburg in Oldham County, Kentucky, from November 7, 1839, to March 31, 1840. Farmer in Spencer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1859. Merchant in Louisville in 1860. Resident of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, in 1863. Resident of Vanderburgh County in 1865.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 2, p. 108A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Oldham County Marriages, Film 000482446.

Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Jefferson County Wills, vol. 6-7, 1862-1872, p. 611-612.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Oldham County, Kentucky, vol. 12A, p. 410.

"Jefferson Circuit Court," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), November 9, 1859, p. 1.

"At Cost Price!" The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), December 15, 1860, p. 2.

Williams’ Evansville Directory, for 1865, (Evansville: E.J. Dobell, 1863), p. 81.

Citation

Dunaway, Thomas. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207095 (November 12, 2026).

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