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Thomas W. Varnon (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer and attorney)

b. 1816-01-08 d. 1890-12-24

Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer and attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Varnon and Sarah Varnon. Married to Eliza Jane Curl Varnon in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on February 21, 1844. Father of Mary E. Varnon, Wallace Varnon, and Sallie Varnon. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Attorney in Lincoln County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Lincoln County in 1850. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1860. Elected to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Lincoln County in 1850, 1863, and 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2, p. 302A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2, p. 14 of microfilm.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 29.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film #000183145, p. 251.

Armstrong, J.M., & Company, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead And Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, Ohio: J. M. Armstrong & company, 1878), 267-68.

"Hon. Thomas W. Varnon Dies Suddenly and Painlessly on the Night of the 24th," Interior Journal(Stanford, KY), December 30, 1890, p. 1.

Find A Grave, "Thomas W. Varnon (1816-1890)," Memorial #107460274, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107460274 (accessed May 16, 2020).

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Varnon, Thomas W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213180 (November 12, 2026).

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