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Thompson B. Shearer (Madison County, KY, farm laborer)

b. 1835?

Madison County, Kentucky, farm laborer. Madison County native. Son of Samuel Shearer and Mary “Polly” Arnold Shearer. Married to Leona Norton Shearer on August 7, 1862. Father of Tarleton Shearer. Resident in Madison County in 1850. Farm laborer in Madison County in 1860. Household owned six enslaved persons in Madison County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, District 3, p. 295B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Western subdivision 2, p. 183.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Western subdivision 2, p. 461 (p. 9 of microfilm).
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Union, p. 273A.
Marriage Records: Kentucky Marriages, (Richmond, KY: Madison County Courthouse), Madison County, Film no. 000183317, pp. 441 and 467; Film no. 000183302, p. 112; Film no. 000183302, p. 249.

Citation

Shearer, Thompson B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214913 (November 12, 2026).

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