<title type="main">W. G. Bailey, Affidavit

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November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0074 BR8-106

Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant) N00006605 1809 1901 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Caroline Sherrill. Father of Mary Sherrill, Benjamin Sherrill, Samuel Sherrill, Emeline Sherrill. Merchant in Jefferson County in 1860. Owner of M.W. Sherrill & Co. in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Winford Green Bailey (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge) Economic: James T. Vanarsdale (Mercer/Jefferson Co. merchant) Social: Isaac Caldwell (Louisville attorney) Social: James T. Vanarsdale (Mercer/Jefferson Co. merchant) Social: John R. Graham (Frankfort, Kentucky, grocer and judge)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 140. Find A Grave, "Mason W. Sherrill (1809-1901)," Memorial #21462331, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21462331 (accessed May 26, 2017). KYR-0001-004-0077. James T. Vanarsdale (Mercer/Jefferson Co. merchant) N00006606 1831? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Son of J.C. Vanarsdale and Nancy Vanarsdale. Married to Margaret C. Vanarsdale. Father of McKee Vanarsdale. Carpenter in Mercer County in 1850. Carpenter in Mercer County in 1860. Merchant for M.W. Sherrill & Co. of Louisville in 1863.

Relationships Social: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 246B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 688. KYR-0001-004-0078. Winford Green Bailey (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge) N00006607 1803-03-16 1883-04-19 Categories: People

Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge. Lincoln County, Kentucky, native. Son of Elijah Bailey. Married to Catherine J. Embry Bailey in 1839. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for Lincoln County in 1834 and 1835. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Lincoln County and Garrard County, Kentucky, from 1840 to 1844. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in 1860. Judge of the Lincoln County Court in 1862.

Relationships Legal: Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant) Political: Simon E. Higgins (Crab Orchard, Kentucky, postmaster, merchant and justice of the peace)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District No. 2, p. 302B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District No. 2, p. 261. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 5. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 2. Find A Grave, "Winford Green Bailey (1803-1883)," Memorial #32023772, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32023772 (accessed May 26, 2017). "Deaths: Judge Winfred G. Baily," Semi-weekly Interior Journal (Stanford, Ky.), April 20, 1883, p. 3. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, _History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1878), p. 468. Folklife Archives, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, "Bailey, Winford Green, 1803-1883 (SC 2243)" (2010). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 1287 (http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlscmssfin_aid/1287). Lincoln County, Kentucky P00005395 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Stanford, Kentucky.

37.5312, -84.6619 Allan R. Leach, "Lincoln County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001), p. 557-58. "Stanford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 2, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 1863-09-26 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.

Mr M. W Sherrill was this day brought before me on a charge of peddling goods &c in the county of Lincoln without license contrary to law he acknowledged that he had done the peddling but alledges that he did so under the License of Jos. T Vainarsdale who has regular license and have been approved by this court for six months from June last Said Vainarsdale being sick as the said Sherill alledges Sherill has paid $100 ^the fine^ imposed by Law Sept 26th 1863

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