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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-0001-017-0272 MG4-206

Hawesville, Hancock County, Kentucky Timothy Holmes (Hancock County, KY, physician & home guard soldier) N00003862 1802-05-16 1881-04-09 Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, physician and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Blincoe Holmes in Hancock County, Kentucky, on March 3, 1831. Father of Benjamin M. Holmes, Lewis T. Holmes, Hester Holmes, Sophronia Holmes, William Holmes, and Amelia Holmes. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hancock County in 1847. Physician in Hancock County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1850. Physician in Hancock County in 1860. Employed Dominic White as a gardener in Hancock County in 1860. Served in the Hancock County Home Guard in June 1861. Served as the Presiding Judge of the Hancock County Court in 1862. Founding member of the Hancock County Agricultural Society created during the 1865 to 1866 session of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Member of the Masonic Order at Hancock Lodge, No. 115 in Hawesville, Hancock County.

Relationships Military: Hancock County Home Guard Political: Milton Levin Cooper (Hancock County, KY, merchant & postmaster) Political: John McCarty Brown (Hancock County, KY, Presiding Judge and magistrate) Social: John Cauffield (Subject of petition from Hancock County in August 1862.) Political: Hancock County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 267B-268A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 268. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 950. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Pendleton County Marriages, Film 000495729, p. 3. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins’ Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Collins & Company, 1878), 305. "An Act to Incorporate the Hancock County Agricultural Society," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the . . . Monday, the Fourth Day of December 1865 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 522-23. Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, at a Grand Annual Communication, in the City of Louisville, Commencing on Monday, the 21st Day of October, 1867 (Frankfort, KY: Frankfort Commonwealth, 1867), 111-12. KYR-0002-022-0048. KYR-0001-029-0110. William R. Mason (Judge of the Hancock County, KY, Court) N00003687 1791-02-09 1861-12-18 Categories: People

Hawesville, Kentucky, judge and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Henderson Mason. Sheriff of Hancock County, Kentucky, in 1849. Judge in Hawesville, Hancock County, in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1860. Judge of the Hancock County Court in Hancock County in 1861.

Relationships Political: Hancock County Court Social: John Cauffield (Subject of petition from Hancock County in August 1862.) Political: Timothy Holmes (Hancock County, KY, physician & home guard soldier)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 134. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 11. Reports Communicated to Both Branches of the Legislature of Kentucky, at the December Session, 1849 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges & Co.–State Printers, 149), 162. "William R. Mason (1791-1861)," Find A Grave, Memorial 89301020, accessed April 5, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89301020. KYR-0002-022-0048. James E. Stone, Sr. (Hancock County, Kentucky, minister and court clerk.) N00018317 1808-02-23 Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, minister and court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Catherine D. Lewis Stone in Hancock County, Kentucky, on October 1, 1835. Father of Ann M. Stone, Mary E. Stone, Francis W. Stone, Catherine M. Stone, Stephen W. D. Stone, and James E. Stone, Jr. County court clerk and Baptist minister in Hancock County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1850. County court clerk in Hancock County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1860.

Relationships Social: John Cauffield (Subject of petition from Hancock County in August 1862.) Political: William R. Mason (Judge of the Hancock County, KY, Court) Political: Timothy Holmes (Hancock County, KY, physician & home guard soldier) Political: Hancock County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, City/District, p. 267B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, City/District, p. 268. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 1008. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 86B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hancock County Marriages, Film 000495729. Oswald Jett, Hancock County, Kentucky, Volume 2: Pioneer Paths Widen (Utica, KY: McDowell Publications, 1989), 195. Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, sec of state, pvt 6th KY Cav CSA) N00002525 1835-01-01 1894-12-19 Categories: People

Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, statesman, and soldier. Adair County native. Son of Nathaniel Gaither and Martha Morrison Gaither. Married to Susan Shelby Magoffin Gaither on September 25, 1861. Resident of Adair County in 1850. Household owned eighteen enslaved persons in Adair County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in Adair County. School commissioner and county attorney. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. Attorney in Adair County in 1860. Secretary of state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from October 2, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Served in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private.

Relationships Legal: Robert H. Thompson (Bourbon County) Political: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Political: Theodore Dehon Rand (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soldier and attorney) Military: Military Board of Kentucky Social: John Baylor Temple (Frankfort, Kentucky, banker and attorney; Preident of the Military Board of Kentucky) Social: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary) Social: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Social: Milton A. Cartwright (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Caldwell County, Kentucky Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Political: Franklin County Court Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) Legal: George W. Gwin (Frankfort, KY, mayor & councilman, merchant, JP) Legal: Thomas Barclay Harrison (Logan County, Kentucky, sheriff) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Joshua Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Joseph S. Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer, newspaper editor, and notary public) Political: Luther R. Martin (Indianapolis, Indiana, clerk and real estate agent.) Political: William Y. Wiley (Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, real estate agent, broker, life insurance salesman, commissioner of deeds, and soldier) Political: Henry Martin (Providence County, Rhode Island, justice of the peace, notary public, and commissioner of deeds) Political: James E. Stone, Sr. (Hancock County, Kentucky, minister and court clerk.) Political: William R. Mason (Judge of the Hancock County, KY, Court) Political: Timothy Holmes (Hancock County, KY, physician & home guard soldier)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair, District 1, p. 31A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair, District 1, p. 171. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair, Columbia, p. 90. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 32. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 5th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1885), 862. Michael C. Watson, "An Adair County History," vol. 1 (2001), 71, 83, 221, 226. Hawesville, Kentucky P001817 Categories: Places

Seat of Hancock County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

37.9001, -86.755 “Hawesville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 27, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. John E. Kleber, ed., The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 419. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Hancock County Court O00000636 Categories: Organizations

Located in Hawesville, Hancock County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailer, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): John McCarty Brown. Clerk(s): James E. Stone, Eldred E. Pate, Edward E. Pate, and W. W. Badger.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Hawesville, Hancock County, Kentucky 1861-12-30 Correspondence 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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Hawesville Ky 30 Dec 1861 Dr Sir

Enclosed find Certificate of appointment of Dr Timothy Holmes as Presiding Judge of the County Court of this County to fill vacancy. occasioned by death of Wm Mason -- please send Commission It is we suppose necessary, if not necessary drop a line to me. From the law. we suppose a Commission necessary --

Yrs &c James E Stone clk

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