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Thomas Hardeman Mayes (Graves County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1807-03-16

Graves County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Son of Robert Chappell Mayes and Agnes Thweat Locke Mayes. Married to Susan Elizabeth Marquess Mayes in Christian County, Kentucky, on December 1, 1834. Father of Thomas Franklin Mayes, Robert Chappel Mayes, George W. Mayes, Harriet A. Mayes, William Marquess Mayes, Eugene Mayes, Elizabeth Mayes, Richard L. Mayes, Catherine Mayes, and Emma Mayes. Farmer in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Graves County in 1850. Farmer in Graves County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Graves County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 411B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 155.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 6.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 52B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 212A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Christian County Marriages, Film 000465562.

Edward Mayes, Genealogical Notes on a Branch of the Family of Mayes, (Jackson: Hederman Bros., 1928), 19, 22-23.

Citation

Mayes, Thomas Hardeman. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212118 (November 12, 2026).

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