County of Christian, Kentucky.  Historical and Biographical.  Edited by 
William Henry Perrin.  F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, p. 376.

THOMAS R. HANCOCK'S father, Nathan Hancock, was born in Charlotte 
County, Va., in 1807, where he now resides, enjoying the confidence and 
esteem of all who know him.  Besides being a Justice of the Peace for a 
third of a century, he has been closely identified with the railroad, 
agricultural and mercantile interests of that county, and has 
accumulated a fair property.  His wife, Paulina (Rudd) Hancock, was born 
in Charlotte County in 1811, and died in 1847.  She was the mother of 
eight children, of whom Thomas R. (subject) was the seventh born.  He is 
also a native of Charlotte County, and was born in 1842.  He was reared 
and educated in his native county, and in early life engaged in 
mercantile pursuits, which he continued until the breaking out of the 
late Civil war, when he entered the Confederate Army as Second 
Lieutenant in Brook Neal's Company, of Campbell County, Va., in which he 
served six months, and then became a member of Company A, of the Twenty-
first Virginia Regiment.  He participated at the battle of Gettysburg 
and all of the battles of the Valley of the Potomac, including 
Frederickstown, Wilderness, and Winchester.  Of the 137 who were members 
of this company, he is one of the eighteen known to have survived the 
war.  He served till the close of the war and was once wounded.  In 1866 
he came to Trigg County and engaged in the mercantile business.  Since 
1870 he has been engaged in the tobacco commission business, and four 
years, by appointment, was Inspector of Tobacco on Staten Island.  In 
Christian County, December 26, 1875, he married Miss Rebecca E. 
Ragsdale, a daughter of William J. and Emma J. (Tillotson) Ragsdale.  
Mrs. Hancock was born in this county in 1853, and is the mother of four 
children, viz.:  William Martin, James Wallace, Douglas Buckner and 
Thomas Ragsdale.  The portrait of Mr. Hancock will be found in this 
volume.

Hancock Rudd Neal Ragsdale Tillotson
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Charlotte-VA Campbell-VA Trigg-KY NY

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