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George Simons (Hopkins County, KY, tailor and farmer)

b. 1797? d. 1866?

Hopkins County, Kentucky, tailor and farmer. Kentucky native. Father of Cyrus Simons, Jacob Simons, George W. Simons, and Mary Simons. Tailor in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Employed Robert Gower as a farm laborer in Hopkins County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 52B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 695.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 589.

Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Hopkins County Administrators Bonds, 1859-1877, p. 439.

Citation

Simons, George. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211421 (November 12, 2026).

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