Granville Pearl

Birth Date

1817-03-19

Death Date

1887-06-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Laurel County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Laurel County, Kentucky, native. Married to Elizabeth Adams Pearl in 1860. Father of John Pearl, Helen Pearl, and Sallie Pearl. Admitted to the bar in 1842. Attorney in Laurel County, Kentucky, in 1850. Commonwealth’s attorney of the 12th Judicial District of Kentucky in London from 1850 to 1856. Judge of the 12th Judicial District of Kentucky in London from 1856 to 1867. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons (including Clarissa Pittman) in Laurel County in 1860. Arrested by General James S. Brisbin on November 3, 1865. Charged in the Fayette Circuit Court with violating the Congressional Act "To encourage enlistments and to promote the efficiency of the military forces of the United States," for the sale of an enslaved woman married to a soldier in the United States Colored Troops.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, p. 49A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, London, p. 471.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, London, p. 3.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, London, p. 147B.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, London, p. 46.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 304.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865),10.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867 Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1868), 354.
U. S. Congress, Senate, Joint Resolution To encourage enlistments and to promote the efficiency of the military forces of the United States, S. J. Res. 82, 38th Congress, 2nd Session, https://www.congress.gov/38/llsr/S.R.82.pdf.
U.S. Freedmen's Bureau Records, 1865-1878, NARA RG 105, Microfilm Series M2029, Roll #13, p. 613.
E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, vol. 1 (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), 383.
M. Secrist, Laurel County, Kentucky: History Revealed through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of its Ancestors (n.p., 2012), 99.
"George Granville Pearl (1817-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial 30091437, accessed June 14, 2016, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30091437.

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