John H. Eastham

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1816-06-04

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1889-04-22

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"John H. Eastham" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00003109, (accessed December 28, 2024).

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Boyd County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Eastham. Father of Virginia Eastham, Miriam Eastham, George E. Eastham, Margaret Eastham, and Mary E. Eastham. Farmer in Carter County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Boyd County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons (Margaret [Unknown], George [Unknown], and James [Unknown]) in Boyd County in 1860. Sheriff of Boyd County in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky Carter County, District 2, p. 224B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, p. 760.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, p. 146A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, District 2, p. 15A.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 49.
William Ely, The Big Sandy Valley: A History of the People and Country from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Catlettsburg, KY: Central Methodist, 1887), p. 488.
"John Higgens Eastham (1816-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial 119804283, accessed April 6, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119804283.

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