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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Marriage Records</hi>, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trimble County Marriages, Film #000420389.

<hi rend='italic'>Find A Grave</hi>, "Thomas A. Theobald (1821-1923)," Memorial #64378131, <a href='http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64378131'>http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64378131</a> (accessed July 24, 2019).

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 33A.

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 396.

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trimble County, Milton, p. 228B.

KYR-0002-222-0070.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 2, 60A. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 153.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965</hi>, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 27493.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910)</hi>, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994027, Adair County Births.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Marriage Records</hi>, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Adair County Marriages, Film 000830576.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, Falmouth, p. 433.

KYR-0002-222-0073.</bibl>
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<hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992).</bibl>
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                  <bibl>"Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer,  accessed July 16, 2019, <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.</a><lb/>

Robert M. Rennick, <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Place Names</hi> (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108.</bibl>
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<hi rend='italic'>History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; Their Past and Present, Including Biographies and Portraits of Pioneers and Representative Citizens</hi> (Cincinnati: S.B. Nelson, 1894), 17.</bibl>
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                  <bibl>Jeane Mason Fogle, "Washington, D.C." in <hi rend='italic'>Encyclopedia Britannica</hi>, (<a href='https://www.britannica.com/place/Washington-DC)'>https://www.britannica.com/place/Washington-DC)</a> (accessed May 22, 2017).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>USGS: Earth Explorer</hi>, "Washington, D.C.," <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/</a> (accessed on August 8, 2019).</bibl>
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Economic: <rs ref='#S32200967'>Thomas Alexander Theobald (Franklin Co, Ky, clerk)</rs>
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<rs ref='#S32200967'>Thos A, Theobald</rs> Esqr<lb/>
<rs ref='#S32211888'>Frankfort</rs> <rs ref='#S32206277'>Ky</rs><lb/>
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<p corresp='TTP35098157P1' xml:id='OTP35098157P1'>Please advise me at your earliest convenience whether the <rs ref='#S32200366'>q. M, Genl</rs> has any funds on hand yet or not I have Some claims which I would like to get adjusted
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<p corresp='TTP35098157P2' xml:id='OTP35098157P2'>Have you got your Blanks yet from <rs ref='#S32197646'>Cincinnati</rs>, and how does the agency business open up? I should be pleased to hear from you occasionally
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<p corresp='TTP35098157P3' xml:id='OTP35098157P3'>Yours Respectfully
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