Person

Jane Lawes (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky,,keeper of a house of prostitution)

b. 1828? d. 1880

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.

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Race
White

Bibliography

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.

Citation

Lawes, Jane. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204576 (November 12, 2026).

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