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Thomas C. Clayton (Hopkins / Webster co, ky, farmer and merchant )

b. 1821?

Hopkins County and Webster County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant. Son of Richard Clayton. Tennessee native. Married to Elizabeth Clayton. Father of Richard Clayton, Nancy Clayton, Philip Clayton, Mary E. Clayton, and William Clayton. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Webster County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Webster County in 1860. Merchant in Webster County in 1863.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 126B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 617.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 436A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Webster County, KY, June 1863, p. 8.

Citation

Clayton, Thomas C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212995 (November 12, 2026).

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