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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, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-006-0025 BR6-27

William Ross (Gallatin County, Kentucky, laborer and fugitive from justice.) N00014853 1829? Categories: People

Boone County, Kentucky, laborer and fugitive from justice. Married to Margaret Julia Black Ross in Boone County, Kentucky, on January 5, 1854. Father of Mitchell H. Ross. Laborer in Boone County in 1850. Resident of Gallatin County in 1859. Shot William H. Kelly in Gallatin County on July 6, 1859. Indicted for the murder of William H. Kelly by the Gallatin Circuit Court. Escaped from the Gallatin County Jail on March 1, 1860. Arrested near the Virginia border in 1860. Escaped from the Gallatin County Jail on September 12, 1860. Fugitive from justice in Missouri in 1864.

Relationships Familial: Mitchell Michael Black (Boone County, Kentucky, farmer) Familial: Margaret Julia Black Ross (Boone County, Kentucky, resident) Familial: Abel C. Ross (Knox County, Missouri, farmer) Familial: Vincent Ross (Boone County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: State of Missouri Legal: Willard Preble Hall (Seventeenth Governor of the State of Missouri, attorney, soldier, and politician.) Legal: Gallatin County Jail Legal: George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Legal: William Sams (Carroll County, Kentucky, sawmill operator, barkeeper, and agent of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.) Legal: John L. Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: William H. Kelly (Gallatin County, KY, farmer) Legal: Gallatin Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, District 2, p. 148A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994028, Boone County Births. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Boone County Marriages, Film 000523724. "Another Cold Blooded Murder," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), July 9, 1859, p. 1. "Warsaw Jail Broken Open," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), March 5, 1860, p. 1. "Second Escape of a Murderer," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), September 17, 1860, p. 1. KYR-0001-006-0024. KYR-0001-006-0026. KYR-0001-021-0048. William Sams (Carroll County, Kentucky, sawmill operator, barkeeper, and agent of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.) N00019704 1834? Categories: People

Carroll County, Kentucky, sawmill operator, barkeeper, and agent of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Henry County, Kentucky, native. Son of Delilah Sams. Married to Eliza Jane Lockhart Sams in Trimble County, Kentucky, on December 28, 1852. Father of James Sams, Joseph T. Sams, and Luella Sams. Farmer in Trimble County in 1850. Sawmill operator in Carroll County in 1860. Barkeeper in Carroll County in 1863. Agent for the Commonwealth of in the requisitions of Alexander Burke and William Ross in 1864.

Relationships Legal: State of Indiana Legal: Robert Alexander Burke (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, murder suspect, and fugitive from justice.) Legal: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Social: David G. Venable (Frankfort, Kentucky, student and soldier) Social: Nettie Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, resident.) Legal: William Ross (Gallatin County, Kentucky, laborer and fugitive from justice.) Legal: State of Missouri

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trimble County, District 2, p. 387A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carroll County, Carrollton, p. 17. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, Shelby County, Bethel Township, p. 14B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Carroll County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 385. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trimble County Marriages, Film 000420390. KYR-0001-006-0011. KYR-0001-006-0026. State of Missouri O00018723 1821 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Missouri. Capitol at Jefferson City. Governors: Robert Marcellus Stewart (1857-1861), Claibourne Fox Jackson (1861), Hamilton Rowan Gamble (1861-1864), William Preble Hall (1864-1865), Thomas Clement Fletcher (1865-1869).

Relationships Political: William McNeill Clough (Platte County, Missouri, lawyer. ) Legal: Rudolph Mackwitz (St. Louis, Missouri, secretary, notary, and claims agent.)

“Historical Listing of Missouri Governors,” Missouri Secretary of State, accessed October 3, 2022, https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/historicallistings/governors. Perry McCandless, A History of Missouri: Volume II, 1820-1860, (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1972), 9-11. 1864-03-18 Note 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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Requisition on Missouri for Wm Ross Apptd. Wm Sams Agt to make Demand Offered Reward of $200. for Wm Ross 18th Mch 1864