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Preston Thomas (Henry County farmer)

b. 1811-11-29 d. 1869-11-03

Henry County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Paulina Bohan Thomas in Shelby County, Kentucky, on January 16, 1840. Father of Benjamin W. Thomas, Oswald Thomas, Julia Thomas, Joseph Thomas, Curtis Thomas, and Newton B. Thomas. Farmer in Shelby County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Henry County in 1860. Donor to the American Colonization Society in 1846 and 1849. Appointed a director of the Eminence and Shelbyville Turnpike Road Company in 1860.

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Bibliography

"An Act to Incorproate the Eminence and Shelbyville Turnpike Road Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: Yeoman Office, J. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 346-348.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District No. 1, p. 46.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Town of New Castle, p. 1.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film #000259288.

Find A Grave, "Preston Thomas (November 29, 1811-November 3, 1869)," Memorial #28414504, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28414504 (accessed April 18, 2017).

Citation

Thomas, Preston. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209527 (November 12, 2026).

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