Person

Benjamin Marshall Hitt (Carroll Co. State Rep.)

b. 1829?

Carroll County, Kentucky, state representative. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth Fearn Hitt in Trimble County, Kentucky, on July 28, 1863. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Carroll County from 1859 to 1861.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carroll County, District 2, p. 53.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Pendleton County Marriages, Film #000420392.

U.S. School Catalogs, 1765-1935, Kentucky, Transylvania University, 1847, p. 5.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1882), 118.

Citation

Hitt, Benjamin Marshall. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214829 (November 12, 2026).

The people, organizations, and places listed below appear in the same documents as Benjamin Marshall Hitt (Carroll Co. State Rep.). They are sorted by the number of documents they share.

Documents (1)

People

Organizations

Places

Loading network...

Network Visualized

How to use the visualization

CWGK’s network visualization brings the edition’s documents to life. The network on this page centers around Hitt, Benjamin Marshall. Click on the light blue dot to see the documents in which the entity appears. You can also click on the dark orange dots to see other people linked to Hitt, Benjamin Marshall, a light orange dot to see the places connected to Hitt, Benjamin Marshall, or dark green dots to see organizations linked to Hitt, Benjamin Marshall.

Additionally, the lines between the dots add additional information. The light green lines demonstrate direct connections between Hitt, Benjamin Marshall and another person, place, or organization. The light pink lines highlight that the dots appear in the same document.