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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, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-005-0063 BR7-105

Wilkins Warren (Bath County, Kentucky, grocery keeper, 2nd lieut 24th KY Inf & 7th KY Cav USA, accused murderer & fugitive) N00003129 1834? Categories: People

Owingsville, Kentucky, grocery keeper and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of James L. Warren. Married to Sarah Warren. Father of James Warren and Viola Warren. Laborer in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Grocery keeper in Bath County in 1860. Served in the 24th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as second lieutenant from December 31, 1861, to April 14th, 1862. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as second lieutenant from August 16, 1862, to August 30, 1862. Accused of the murder of [Unknown] Adams in Bath County on April 20, 1865.

Relationships Legal: Van B. Young (Owingsville, Kentucky, circuit clerk, attorney, and politician) Legal: Richard Apperson, Jr. (11th District Circuit Judge) Social: [Unknown] Adams (Letcher co, KY, murder victim in Bath Co) Familial: James L. Warren (Bath County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, 2nd Division, p. 19B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, 2nd Division, p. 304. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Bath, Wyoming, p. 193. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 206-07. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 176, 954. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 85 and Roll 372. KYR-0001-005-0062. Van B. Young (Owingsville, Kentucky, circuit clerk, attorney, and politician) N00003130 1831? Categories: People

Owingsville, Kentucky, court clerk, attorney, U.S. marshal, police judge, and politician. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas I. Young and Elizabeth Young. Married to Mary R. Bell Young in Bath County, Kentucky, on June 26, 1856. Resident of Bath County in 1850. Studied law with Judge Thomas B. Monroe, Sr., in Frankfort, Kentucky. U.S. Marshal in Bath County. Attorney in Owingsville in 1860. Police judge of Owingsville in 1861. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Bath County from 1861 to 1863. Clerk of the Bath Circuit Court from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Bath County Court Legal: Richard Apperson, Jr. (11th District Circuit Judge) Legal: Wilkins Warren (Bath County, Kentucky, grocery keeper, 2nd lieut 24th KY Inf & 7th KY Cav USA, accused murderer & fugitive) Legal: Bath Circuit Court Legal: James M. Nesbitt (Bath County, Kentucky, attorney & comm'th atty) Legal: James Andrew Jackson Lee (Owingsville, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: William Penrose Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier) Legal: George W. Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Legal: John A. Turner, Jr. (Bath County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: Benjamin Daniel Lacy (Owingsville, Kentucky, attorney & county atty) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, 1st Division, p. 109B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath, Owingsville, p. 1. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994027-994058, Fayette County Marriages, p. 7 of 29 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky (Louisville, KY: Richard H. Collins, 1877), 47. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 137. KYR-0001-017-0065. 1865-05-08 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Dear Judge

Warren has fled, he is about 33 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high weighs about 165 lbs black hair and eyes, and has a peculiar sharp voice wears his whiskers long, generally wears a military coat, striped pants, and high toped boots,,

Monday May 8th 65,

Yours &c V B Young

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