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Minor E. Pate (Hancock County, KY, Home Guard, farmer, postmaster)

b. 1809?

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer, soldier, and postmaster. Kentucky native. Married to Rebecca Pate. Father of Virginia Pate, Emily Pate, Eldred E. Pate, Mary E. Pate, Sarah D. Pate, and Viola Pate. Farmer in Hancock County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed James B. Maitland as a teacher in Hancock County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1850. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1860. Served in the Hancock County Home Guard in 1862. Postmaster of Patesville in Hancock County from November 4, 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 300A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 269.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 926.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 83A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 237B.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Hancock County, Kentucky, vol. 28.

KYR-0002-022-0045.

Citation

Pate, Minor E.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209112 (November 12, 2026).

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