Rossamus S. Thomas

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1824-11-09

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1865-05-12

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"Rossamus S. Thomas" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00012724, (accessed June 8, 2025).

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Hart County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of H. W. Thomas and Grace Thomas. Married to Martha A. G. "Grace" Walters Thomas in Larue County, Kentucky, on October 21, 1853. Father of Febe E. Thomas, Henry C. Thomas, James W. Thomas, and Mary M. Thomas. Farmer in Larue County in 1850. Farmer in Hart County in 1860. Employed John Ferry as a saddler in Hart County in 1860. Employed Julia Vass as a servant in Hart County in 1860. Employed James Lobb as a farmhand in Hart County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Hart County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Larue County, Hamiltons, p. 433B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, Hammonsville, p. 861.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, Division 2, p. 3.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Larue County Marriages, Film #000409559, p. 77 of microfilm (accessed via ancestry.com).
Find A Grave, "Rossamus S. Thomas (Nov. 9, 1824-May 12, 1865)," Memorial # 14554157, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14554157 (accessed May 22, 2020).

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