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Note: Source: Death Certificate.
1880 FC Ky - Shelby Co. - Christiansburg lists T. H. Hancock with wife Ellen and sons Orville and Thomas B. Hancock.
Thomas H. Hancock (b. July 1844, Henry County), a son of Thomas Bartlett and Lucy Coombs, married Ella/Ellen C. Banta (b. November 1854, Ky.) about 1872. The couple`s four children included Lillian (b. February 1886, Ky.)
Hancock donated land for a railroad depot at the village of Sulphur, about 6.5 miles northwest of New Castle, in 1867, spurring economic growth. When a post office was established there as "Sulphur Fork" on August 24,1869, Hancock became the first postmaster. As a 26-year-old Hancock was a U.S. Store Keeper living in the "Bethlehem Precinct, Subdivision 63" of Henry County, in the household of Marcellus Scruggs. By 1900, he was 55 and a farmer living in Christiansburg, Shelby County.
Thomas H. Hancock is listed as a Sergeant in Company B of the Union's 54th Mounted Infantry, along with his brothers, Robert A. Hancock, 2nd Lieutenant, and William Hancock, Farrier (Blacksmith). Reference: Union Regiments of Kentucky (KHR 973.7469 UN58) Louisville Free Public Library.
Following is from "Kentucky Place Names" (1984), by Robert M. Rennick, The University Press of Kentucky:
"Sulphur: This village with Post Office is centered at the junction of Ky Hwy 157 and 1606, on the Little Kentucky River, 6 1/2 miles northwest of New Castle. First called Abbottsford for Marion and Wash Abbott, early settlers, and renamed for the local springs, the village grew up around the depot built for the Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington (or Short line, later L & N) Railroad on land donated by Thomas H. Hancock in 1867. The Post Office was established as Sulphur Fork, for White Sulphur Fork, a nearby branch of the Little Kentucky River, on 24 Aug 1869, with Hancock as the first Post Master. It became Sulphur Station in 1880 and Sulphur in 1882."
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