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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-017-0057 MG3-411

Gustavus C. Gaines (Union County Farmer) N00002308 1819? Categories: People

Union County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Ann Gibson Gaines in Woodford County, Kentucky, on August 26, 1843. Married to Catharine M. Gaines. Father of Bernard Gaines, John C. B. Gaines, and Ann E. Gaines. Farmer in Union County in 1860. Confirmed as a notary public in Union County on February 5, 1861.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, p. 188. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Woodford County Marriages, Film #000252324. KYR-0001-017-0062. H. L. Woolfolk (Webster County) N00002309 Categories: People

Confirmed as a notary public in Webster County on February 5, 1861.

KYR-0001-017-0057. KYR-0001-017-0062. John A. Brooks (Hopkins + Webster Co. clerk, notary public + attorney ) N00001060 1837? Categories: People

Hopkins County and Webster County, Kentucky, clerk, notary public, and attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Nathaniel M. Brooks and Virginia Brooks. Married to Nannie A. Rice in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1861. Student in Hopkins County in 1850. Clerk in Hopkins County in 1860. Notary public in Webster County in 1861. Attorney in Dixon in 1865.

Relationships Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 113B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 692. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hopkins County Marriages, Film #000568132, p. 42. U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Kentucky, 1865, Collection District 1, Division 12, p. 19. Journal of the Adjourned Session of 1865-6, of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 201-02. KYR-0001-017-0062. William T. Vaughn (Webster County, Kentucky, farmer) N00002314 1813? Categories: People

Webster County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Matilda Blackwell Vaughn in Union County, Kentucky, on June 22, 1859. Father of Edmond Vaughn, Ibba Vaughn, Davis J. Vaughn, Elizabeth P. Vaughn, R. H. Vaughn, and James W. Vaughn. Farmer in Webster County in 1860. Confirmed as a notary public in Webster County on February 5, 1861.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 95. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Webster County Marriages, Film #000562204. KYR-0001-017-0062. Dixon, Kentucky P00002311 Categories: Places

Seat of Webster County, Kentucky.

37.5178, -87.6903 "Dixon, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 6, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987). p. 83. Webster County, Kentucky P00002312 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Dixon. Located on the Green River.

37.5178, -87.6903 James Duane Bolin, "Webster County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 939-40. "Dixon, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/, accessed September 6, 2019. Claysville, Kentucky P00002315 Categories: Places

City in Webster County, Kentucky.

37.4767, -87.82 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 59. Note English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": 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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Notary Public

G. C. GainesH.. L. WoolfolkDixon Webster CountyJohn BrooksW. T. Vaughn.Clayville Do..

Webster Co. Notaries Public

Comd Jany 26. 1861