Lydia Ann Parks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident and underground rr)
b. 1801?
Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Resident in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1863. Employed Mattie Johnson as a house servant in Louisville in 1863. Indicted for aiding in the escape of an enslaved boy and girl to Jeffersonville, Indiana, in Louisville, Kentucky, in September 1863. Pardoned by Thomas E. Bramlette on March 1, 1865.
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- Female
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- White
Bibliography
"Kentucky's Underground Railroad: Passage To Freedom," KET Education, https://www.ket.org/education/resources/kentuckys-underground-railroad-passage-freedom/ (accessed February 27, 2020).
"Louisville Daily Journal, 1863-09-16," Internet Archive, https://archive.org/stream/xt71ns0kvz53/xt71ns0kvz53_djvu.txt (accessed February 27, 2020).
Citation
Parks, Lydia Ann. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211355 (November 12, 2026).
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