Thomas John Chilton and Margaret Bledsoe, Chilton attended schools in Paris, Kentucky. One week before his seventeenth birthday he married and commenced study for ordination as a Baptist minister. Simultaneously he began studying for the bar with Jesse Bledsoe, a maternal uncle.
Chilton John Thomas and Margaret Bledsoe, Chilton studied at schools in Paris, Kentucky. Before his 17th birthday, he married and started preparing for a career as a Baptist minister. Concurrently, he began studying law with Jesse Bledsoe, who was his maternal uncle.