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Thomas Burke Stevenson (Mason County, Kentucky, newspaper editor. )

b. 1810-07-15 d. 1863-11-13

Mason County, Kentucky, newspaper editor. Kentucky native. Son of Reuben Stevenson and Cassandra Jones Stevenson. Married to Sarah Elizabeth Combs Stevenson. Father of Mary Stevenson, Elizabeth "Bettie" A. Stevenson, Sarah "Sallie" Theobald Stevenson Williams, Martha "Mattie" Stevenson, Julia Stevenson, Suzane Stevenson, Thomas Stevenson, J. M. Stevenson, Louisiana Stevenson Caldwell, Anna Stevenson, and Horace Stevenson. Member of the Whig Party. Editor of the Frankfort Commonwealth in Frankfort, Kentucky, from 1841 to 1847. Editor of the Cincinnati Atlas and the Cincinnati Chronicle in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1847 to1849. Editor of the Eagle in Maysville from 1850 to 1853. Editor and published in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed Franklin Bayhan, J. Carter Williams, James J. Ross, and Thomas Ross as printers in Mason County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850.Attorney in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1860. Employed Margaret Fenety as a servant in Mason County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 31A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville/Ward 2, p. 340.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film 005552770.

"Death of Colonel Thomas B. Stevenson," Maysville Weekly Bulletin (Maysville, KY), November 19, 1863, p. 2.

"Thomas Burke Stevenson (1810-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial 128333715, accessed May 11, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128333715.

Citation

Stevenson, Thomas Burke. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32215053 (November 12, 2026).

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