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Mercer County, Kentucky Martin V. Bowen (Mercer County, Kentucky, police judge) N00006068 1838-03-17 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, shoemaker, jailer, and police judge. Married to Parellee Gabhart Bowen. Father of Sallie Bowen. Shoemaker in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1860. Employed George Walton as an apprentice in Mercer County in 1860. Jailer of Mercer County c1862. Police judge of Mercer County in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Charles Alfred Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Thomas Helm Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Legal: [Unknown] Bishop (Lieutenant, USCT) Legal: John D. Hale (Mercer County, KY, merchant & brevet 2nd lieut 9th KY Cav USA & col 74th Reg Ky Enrolled Militia) Political: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Political: John Kemper Slaughter (Mercer County Broom Maker)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer, p. 547 . Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #000191863, Mercer County Marriages, p. 2565. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 304. Kenneth W. Noe, "'Disturbers of the Peace': The Kidnapping of John D. Hale and the Long Civil War in Kentucky," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 117, Number 2, Spring 2019, p. 277. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #22360. KYR-0001-005-0100. John D. Hale (Mercer County, KY, merchant & brevet 2nd lieut 9th KY Cav USA & col 74th Reg Ky Enrolled Militia) N00005252 1839? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier. Married to Martha J. Hale. Father of Melissa Hale. Merchant in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as brevet second lieutenant from August 22, 1862, to March 21, 1863. Served in the 74th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia as colonel.

Relationships Legal: Charles Alfred Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Thomas Helm Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Military: 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 2nd Kentucky Heavy Artillery Regiment (U.S.A.) Legal: Mercer Circuit Court Military: Mercer County Militia Military: 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: United States Army Legal: Jefferson Robards (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer ) Legal: [Unknown] Bishop (Lieutenant, USCT) Legal: Adna H. Bowen (Covington, Kentucky, tobacconist and soldier) Legal: M. Jenkins (Mercer County) Legal: Martin V. Bowen (Mercer County, Kentucky, police judge) Legal: Thomas Clelland Bell (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney, teacher, and surveyor) Political: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Political: John Kemper Slaughter (Mercer County Broom Maker)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Cornishville, p. 571. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 243. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 97. KYR-0001-005-0103. KYR-0001-028-0001. John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) N00004883 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, resident. Convicted in the November 1864 term of the Mercer Circuit Court of shooting and wounding Andrew Galbraith Kyle.

Relationships Military: John D. Hale (Mercer County, KY, merchant & brevet 2nd lieut 9th KY Cav USA & col 74th Reg Ky Enrolled Militia) Military: 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 2nd Kentucky Heavy Artillery Regiment (U.S.A.) Legal: Mercer Circuit Court Familial: [unknown] Patterson (Mercer County) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Andrew Galbraith Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer; president of Harrodsburg Savings Institution) Legal: Kentucky State Penitentiary

KYR-0001-004-1344. KYR-0001-004-1356. KYR-0001-004-1358. KYR-0001-004-1359. John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) N00003203 1809-02-01 1882-02-09 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant. Shelbyville, Kentucky, native. Married to Sophia Bledsoe Taylor Cardwell in March 1830. Father of John T. Cardwell, Telulia Cardwell, James M. Cardwell, Susan L. Cardwell, Thomas M. Cardwell, Samuel Creed Cardwell, Wesley K. Cardwell, Nannie Cardwell, and Llewellyn Davis Cardwell. Apprentice in a printing house. Trustee for the Harrodsburg Methodist Episcopal Church in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in 1842. Notary Public in Mercer County in 1847. Co-founder of Monadelphian Society of Industrial Education in 1849. Dry goods clerk in 1850. Partner and, later, full owner of Capt. Bull’s Corner dry goods business. Owned three enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Cashier of Harrodsburg Savings Institution in 1860 and 1863. Served in the Mercer County Home Guard as captain in June 1861. Provost marshal in Mercer County.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Legal: John D. Hale (Mercer County, KY, merchant & brevet 2nd lieut 9th KY Cav USA & col 74th Reg Ky Enrolled Militia) Legal: Mercer Circuit Court Military: [Unknown] Currey (Mercer County, KY, lieut likely in Mercer County Home Guard) Legal: Martin V. Bowen (Mercer County, Kentucky, police judge) Military: Mercer County Home Guard Economic: Harrodsburg Savings Institution Economic: Harrodsburg Bar Economic: Thomas Clelland Bell (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney, teacher, and surveyor) Economic: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Economic: John P. Haggin (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: James D. Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA) Legal: Thomas Allin (Mercer County, county clerk) Legal: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Legal: Theodore H. Daviess (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 271B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 837. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, pp. 685-86. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 581A. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at the December Session, 1841 (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges & Co., State Printer, 1842), 174. Taliaferro P. Shaffner, ed., _ The Kentucky State Register, for the Year 1847_ (Louisville: Morton & Griswold, 1847), 133. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at the December Session, 1848 (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges & Co., State Printer, 1849), 409-10. Thomas W. Westerfield, ed., Kentucky Genealogy and Biography: Sketches from Adair, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland, Garrard, Green, Lincoln, Madison, Marion, Mercer, Nelson, Taylor, Washington Counties, vol. 5 (Owensboro, Ky.: Genealogical Reference Company, 1975), 74. Reprint of W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 4th ed. "John Wesley Cardwell (1809-1882)," Find A Grave, Memorial #100176979, accessed April 23, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100176979. KYR-0002-022-0123. Mercer County, Kentucky P00000556 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Harrodsburg. Located on the Kentucky River.

Relationships Political: Ephraim J. Polk (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and examiner for Mercer County)

37.7623, -84.8433 "Harrodsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 25, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, “Mercer County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 627. Franklin County, Kentucky P001019 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Frankfort. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, "Franklin County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 354-56. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Mercer County, Kentucky 1864-06-20 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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State of Kentucky Mercer County} affidavit

M. V. Bowen states on oath that he is the jailer of Mercer County, & has been such for more than one year last past.- He states that Capt Jno. D Hale a few days after the charge of rescue of John Patterson was made against him, & a few days after the occurance & charge made, came with sd. John Patterson and delivered him over to the civil authority of Mercer County Ky, and placed him in my custody as Jailer of Mercer County, & I recieved him and he was from thence taken to the Jail of Franklin County, & has been since bailed out with good & sufficient bail.

M. V. Bowen

Sworn to before me by M. V. Bowen this 20th June 1864,

J W Cardwell N. P. Mercer Co Ky

J W C N P 20 Jun 1864

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