Thomas McGrain, Jr.

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1835-01-18

Death Date

1908-09-11

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"Thomas McGrain, Jr." in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00011879, (accessed May 10, 2024).

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Jefferson County, Kentucky, and Harrison County, Indiana, clerk, merchant, and flour dealer. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas McGrain and Matilda Reid McGrain. Married to Margaret Griffin McGrain in Indiana on November 20, 1856. Father of Daniel G. McGrain, Tilli McGrain, Zetta McGrain, and Kate S. McGrain. Family owned four enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1840. Clerk in Harrison County, Indiana, in 1860. Signed a petition as a flour dealer in May 1861 to appoint W. G. Timberlake as flour inspector.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 92.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Harrison County, Harrison, p. 149.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Harrison County, Corydon, p. 105A.
Find A Grave, "Thomas McGrain, Jr. (1835-1908)," Memorial 172278147, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172278147 (accessed January 29, 2020).
Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001, Film #000549384, p. 320 (accessed through ancestry.com on January 29, 2020).
Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7011808, Lexington Deaths, Death Certificate # 687, p. 1588 of microfilm.
KYR-0001-017-0163.

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