Thomas Prather

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1816-01-07

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1872-01-28

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"Thomas Prather" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00014079, (accessed April 22, 2025).

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Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Priscilla Prather. Father of Stephen A. Prather, Sarah C. Prather, Mary E. Prather, John C. Prather, Theodore Prather, Louisa J. Prather, Arena Prather, Enos Prather, Charlotte Prather, and Humphry Marshall Prather. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed James T. Hobgood as a laborer in Hopkins County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Employed Cyrus C. Ashby as a day laborer in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Held four additional enslaved persons in trust in Hopkins County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 150A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 732.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 611-12.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 210B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Precinct 3, p. 56A-B.
"Thomas Prather (1816-1872)," Find A Grave, Memorial #67995644, accessed March 11, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67995644.

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