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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-0001-017-0136 MG4-21 to MG4-22

Washington County, Mississippi William A. Haycraft (Washington County, Mississippi, county clerk) N00014960 1831? 1878-09-05 Categories: People

Washington County, Mississippi, county clerk. Kentucky native. County clerk in Greenville, Mississippi, in 1861. Circuit court clerk in Washington County in 1865.

Relationships Legal: William Lewis Nugent (Washington County, Mississippi, attorney, commissioner, lieutenant colonel, second lieutenant, captain, and assistant adjutant general (C.S.A.)) Legal: Washington Circuit Court, Mississippi

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Washington County, Greenville, p. 8B. “List of Deaths to Date,” The Weekly-Democrat Times (Greenville, MS), Sept. 14, 1878, p. 1. Franklin L. Riley, ed., Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, No. 14 (Oxford, Ms: University of Mississippi, 1914), 284-85. KYR-0001-017-0136. William Lewis Nugent (Washington County, Mississippi, attorney, commissioner, lieutenant colonel, second lieutenant, captain, and assistant adjutant general (C.S.A.)) N00014961 1832-12-12 1897-01-19 Categories: People

Washington County, Mississippi, attorney and soldier. Louisiana native. Married to Eleanor "Nellie" Smith Nugent in Washington County, Mississippi, on November 6, 1860. Student in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, in 1850. Graduate of Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport. Attorney in Washington County, Mississippi, in 1861. Commissioner of Deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Washington County in 1861. Served in the 28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel and second lieutenant from 1861 to August 15, 1863. Served in Ferguson's Brigade (C.S.A.) as captain and assistant adjutant general from August 15, 1863, to February 18, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Louisiana East Feliciana Parish, p. 217B. Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Centenary College of Louisiana for the Academic Year 1851-52 (Jackson, LA: Southern Mirror Office Print, 1852), 6. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Generals and Staff Officers, and Nonregimental Enlisted Men, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M331, Roll 0188. Susannah J. Ural, "'My Darling Nellie': A Southern Soldier's Letters Home ,” History Net, February 2014, accessed July 7, 2021, https://www.historynet.com/darling-nellie-southern-soldiers-letters-home.htm. "William Lewis Nugent (1832-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial #11437607, accessed July 7, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11437607. KYR-0001-017-0120. KYR-0001-017-0136. Washington County, Mississippi P00014962 Categories: Places

County in western Mississippi. Seat at Greenville. Located in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.

33.4101, -91.0618 "Greenville, Mississippi," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 7, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. "Welcome to Washington County: Our History," Washington County, accessed July 7, 2021, http://www.washingtoncounty.ms. Mississippi P00000918 Categories: Places

State in the southern United States. Capital at Jackson, Mississippi. Located on the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico.

32.2988, -90.1848 The Mississippi Encyclopedia, Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, et al, eds. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017). “Jackson, Mississippi," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. State of Mississippi O00014466 1817 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Mississippi. Capital at Jackson. Governors: John Jones Pettus (1859-1863), Charles Clark (1863-1865), William Lewis Sharkey (1865), Benjamin G. Humphreys (1865–68).

Jeff Wallenfeldt, "Mississippi," Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/Mississippi-state (accessed May 17, 2021). Brian Wilson, "Offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor," Mississippi Encyclopedia, https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/offices-of-governor-and-lieutenant-governor/ (accessed May 17, 2021). Washington Circuit Court, Mississippi O00014963 1827 Categories: Organizations

Located in Greenville, Mississippi. Judge: J. Shall Yerger. Clerk: William A. Haycraft.

Franklin L. Riley, ed., Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, No. 14 (Oxford, Ms: University of Mississippi, 1914), 267, 284-85. KYR-0001-017-0136. 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. Washington County, Mississippi 1861-04-12 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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State of Mississippi Washington County

Personally appeared before me William A. Haycraft, clerk of the Circuit Court in & for said County, & authorized by Law to administer oaths, William L. Nugent, who stated on oath that he will well & truly execute & perform all the duty of his station as a Commissioner for the State of Kentucky resident in the state of Mississippi --

Wm L Nugent

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 12th April 1861 W. A. Haycraft clk

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Mississippi

Comr. of Deeds Wm L. Nugent

Oath Filed Apr 19th 1861