Wesley [Unknown]

Death Date

1863-01-10

Gender

Race Description

Black

Entity Type

Person

Caldwell County, Kentucky, enslaved man. Enslaved by Jesse Williams in Princeton, Kentucky. Commanded by Jesse Williams to shoot Edmund Stevens on May 25, 1859. Escaped the Caldwell County Jail on April 13, 1861. Sentenced to death for the murder of Edmund Stevens in Caldwell County on June 15, 1861. Sentenced to be hanged on September 6, 1861, in the Caldwelll Circuit Court on June 15, 1861. Death sentence commuted to life in prison on August 26, 1861. Died in the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort on January 10, 1863.

Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), April 15, 1861, p. 3.
Register of Prisoners, 1855-1861, Kentucky State Penitentiary-Frankfort, KDLA, Film #7009891.
KYR-0001-021-0032.
KYR-0001-021-0033.
KYR-0001-021-0035.

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