Aylett Hawes Buckner

Birth Date

1809-09-16

Death Date

1867-09-01

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, attorney and court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Charlotte Forsythe Buckner in Illinois in 1833. Father of Benjamin F. Buckner, Susan Buckner, and Daniel T. Buckner. Resident of Jacksonville, Illinois. Attorney in Jacksonville. Editor of the Illinoian in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, in 1838. Attorney in Winchester, Kentucky. Member of the Whig Party. Clerk in Clark County in 1850. Clerk of the Clark Circuit Court from 1858 to 1861. Clerk of the Clark Circuit Court in 1865. Hired one enslaved person in Clark County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 41A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, District 2, p. 873.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, District 2, p. 348B.
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), 290.
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), 305.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 11.
Patrick A. Lewis, For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 29-30, 46-51.
"Aylett Hawes Buckner (1809-1867)," Find A Grave, Memorial 50717378, accessed August 16, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50717378.

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