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Thomas Peyton Hill (Lincoln County, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1826-08-30 d. 1908

Lincoln County, Kentucky, attorney. Pulaski County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas O. Hill and Louisa Peyton Hill. Married to Maria A. Peyton Hill. Father of Zuritha L. Hill, Mary "Mollie" Hill, Anna M. Hill, Alfred A. Hill, Thomas P. Hill, W. Bailey Hill, and Fannie F. Hill. Educated at St. Mary's College in Marion, Kentucky. Studied law under John Kincaid. Attorney in Wayne County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Wayne County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1852. Attorney in Lincoln County in 1860. Law partners with J. W. Alcorn from 1865 to 1867.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, Division No. 1, p. 289B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, Division 1, p. 105.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 16.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 96B.

Find A Grave, "Thomas Peyton Hill (1826-1908)," Memorial #41316140, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41316140 (accessed July 2, 2019).

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), p. 380.

H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), pp. 539-40.

Interior Journal (Stanford, Ky.), March 2, 1909, p. 1.

Kentucky Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates, KDLA: Mason County Deaths, 1931, file no. 27529.

Citation

Hill, Thomas Peyton. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209291 (November 12, 2026).

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