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Benjamin T. Hale (Hickman County, Kentucky, trader and master brick mason)

b. 1812?

Hickman County, Kentucky, trader and master brick mason. Virginia native. Married to Nancy McCrary Hale. Father of Joseph Thomas Hale, Frances Hale, Benjamin S. Hale, Bartholomew Hale, Netty Hale, Sidney Alice Hale, George R. Hale, and Nancy Hale. Married to Sophronia H. Gentre Hale in December 1858, in Hickman County, Kentucky. Father of John E. Hale, E. Vandam Hale, and Henry S.B. Hale. Trader in Humphreys County, Tennessee, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Humphreys County in 1850. Master brick mason in Hickman County, Kentucky, in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Humphreys County, Waverly, p. 156A-B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Humphreys County, p. 379.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Columbus, p. 463-464.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Columbus, p. 437B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994039, Hickman County Marriages, p. 115.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 28688.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994039, Hickman County Births.

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Hale, Benjamin T.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280727 (November 13, 2026).

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