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Thomas Shanks (Louisville, Kentucky, brickmason)

b. 1814-05-01 d. 1892-10-13

Louisville, Kentucky, master brickmason. Kentucky native. Married to Lucinda E. Sale Shanks in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on May 10, 1838. Father of Mary Shanks, William Shanks, Virginia Shanks, Anna Shanks, Lucinda Shanks, and Rose Emma Shanks. Brickmason in Louisville in 1850. Master brick layer in Louisville in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville District 2, p. 195A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 4, p. 82.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 6, p. 607B.
Find A Grave, "Thomas Shanks (1814-1892)," Memorial #21462325, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21462325 (accessed August 20, 2019).
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482706, p. 39

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Shanks, Thomas. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214186 (November 12, 2026).

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