Philip Prather

Metadata
Citation
Documents
Download

Birth Date

c1803

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

"Philip Prather" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00014161, (accessed January 6, 2025).

Download XML

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer and postmaster. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah "Sallie" Prather. Father of Sarah T. Prather, Ziller Ann Prather, Eliza J. Prather, and Philip S. Prather. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Postmaster of Hall in Hopkins County from March 12, 1852, to July 22, 1853. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 149A-B.
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. 613.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 210B.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Hopkins County, Kentucky, vol. 14, p. 644.

Civil War Governors of Kentucky is always evolving. Help us improve the edition by suggesting a correction or addition to this record.

Suggest a correction