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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-0001-017-0125 MG4-7

Fearn Penn (Shelby County, Tennessee, clerk, merchant, notary public, commissioner of deeds, and private (C.S.A.)) N00015272 1832? 1889 Categories: People

Shelby County, Tennessee, clerk, merchant, notary public, commissioner of deeds, and soldier. Alabama native. Son of James Penn and Martha A. Penn. Clerk in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Memphis in 1850. Merchant in Memphis in 1860. Household owned two enslaved persons in Memphis in 1860. Notary public in Memphis in 1861. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Tennessee in 1861. Mustered in to Captain Johnston’s Company Tennessee Heavy Artillery (C.S.A.) as private on April 21,1861.

Relationships Political: John M. Hewitt (Franklin County, Kentucky lawyer and politician)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Ward 3, p. 36 A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Ward 3, p. 595. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Ward 3, p. 97. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Ward 3, p. 3 Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Alabama, Madison County, Huntsville, p. 372 B. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0066. ”Deaths in Alabama,” The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL), July 23, 1889. ”Fearn Penn Notary Public," The Memphis Daily Avalanche (Memphis, TN), February 20, 1861. KYR-0001-017-0125. John M. Hewitt (Franklin County, Kentucky lawyer and politician) N00001653 1794? Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky attorney and politician. Virginia native. Married Mildred Holloway Hewitt in Woodford County, Kentucky, on November 13, 1832. Father of Martha F. Hewitt, Betty B. Hewitt, Thomas Hewitt, George Ann Hewitt, John M. Hewitt, and Zeba Hewitt. Attorney in Franklin County in 1850. Owned seventeen enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Franklin County from 1855 to 1857. Attorney in Frankfort in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Lewis Cheek (Franklin County, Kentucky, grocer.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 54B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 3 of 19 on microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 258-9. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 491B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Woodford County Marriages, Film #252320, p. 57. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2,(Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), p. 241. Memphis, Tennessee P001003 Categories: Places

Seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Located on the Mississippi River.

35.1495, -90.049 John E. Harkins, "Memphis" in Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2016, http://www.tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=889 (accessed July 19, 2016). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Memphis, Tennessee" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on February 18, 2020). Tennessee P001001 Categories: Places

State in the southeastern United States. Capital at Nashville. Located on the Cumberland River.

35.5175, -86.5804 Paul H. Bergeron, Stephen V. Ash, and Jeanette Keith, Tennesseans and Their History (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), 69. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Tennessee," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 14, 2019). 1861-04-09 Note English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": 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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Comr. of Deeds Fearn Penn Memphis IssdApr 9. 1861

Recommended by Judge J M Hewitt