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Thomas J. Hoy (Simpson County, Kentucky, blacksmith and farmer.)

b. 1817 d. 1898

Simpson County, Kentucky, blacksmith and farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John Hoy and S. P. Hoy. Married to Lucy J. Hoy. Father of Louisa E. Hoy. Blacksmith in Simpson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned thirty-one enslaved persons in 1850. Farmer in Simpson County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Simpson County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 53B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 869.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 130.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 307A.

Find A Grave, "Thomas J. Hoy (1817-1898)," Memorial #49952558, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49952558 (accessed September 10, 2020).

Citation

Hoy, Thomas J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32279666 (November 12, 2026).

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