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 November 12, 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-0001-004-1313 BR12-43 to BR12-43A

Trigg County, Kentucky James H. Wilkinson (Trigg County Court Judge and attorney) N00003627 1810? 1882 Categories: People

Trigg County, Kentucky, judge and attorney. Tennessee native. Married to Joyce Tillotson Wilkinson. Father of Cornelia Wilkinson McNichols. Attorney in Trigg County in 1860. Judge of Trigg County Court in Trigg County in 1864 and 1870.

Relationships Legal: William B. Baker (Trigg County farmer) Legal: Edmond Ledford (Trigg County) Legal: Matthew Jouet McKinney (Trigg County attorney and Court Clerk) Legal: Trigg County Court

William Henry Perrin, ed., Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical (Chicago, IL: F. A. Battey Publishing Company, 1884), p. 31-32, 56, 227. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 194. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 2. KYR-0001-004-1313. Trigg County, Kentucky 1866-09-15 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.
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I J. H. Wilkinson Presiding Judge of the Trigg County Court certify that at the time when Messr Ledford & Baker made application for License as stated in the foregoing petition, the opinion was entertained & acted ^upon^ by myself & the then clerk of the County Court Mat McKinney that it was only necessary for the applicant to procure "Merchants License to retail" for which the tax is five dollars -- instead of State License. The same opinion was entertained by members of the bar at this place. Acting upon these views we did issue the wrong License to Ledford & Baker, it was through our mistake as to the law, and not through any fault of theirs that the law was violated

Given under my hand this 15th day of Sept 1866 J. H. Wilkinson P. J T C C