Jane Lawes

Birth Date

c1828

Death Date

1880

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, sex worker and madam. Kentucky resident. Mother of Alice Catherine Lawes and Alex Gilmore Lawes. Attended school in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Sex worker and madam in Louisville in 1860. Fined for tippling in Louisville in 1860. Fine remitted by Governor Beriah Magoffin in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 405B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 2, p. 595.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 253A.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Mortality Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County,, Louisville, p. 17.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 007723023.

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