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Hawesville, Hancock County, Kentucky George Washington Williams (Hancock County, Kentucky, attorney) N00002046 1814-11-27 1890-09-29 Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, attorney. Breckinridge County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mary W. Hamilton Williams. Father of Hamilton Williams, Ione Williams Baker, James Russell Williams, Mary Ruth Williams Crutcher, and Hugh A. Williams. Teacher in Helena, Arkansas, in 1837. Studied law with the firm of Thomasson and Boon in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1838. Admitted to the bar in 1840 in Hawesville, Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hancock and Ohio counties from 1850 to 1851. Owned four enslaved people in Hancock County in 1850. Unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1857. Elector for the Democratic presidential ticket of James Buchanan in 1856. Owned eight enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1860.

Relationships Military: Hancock County Home Guard

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 40. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 3. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Davies County, Owensboro, Ward 1, p. 257. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 319-322. An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Daviess County, Ky. : carefully compiled from personal examinations and surveys (Utica: Leo McDonough & Co., 1876). Tallaferro P. Shaffner, ed., Kentucky Annual State Register, 1847 (Louisville: Morton and Griswold, 1847), 93. Collins’ Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Collins & Company, 1878), 305. Find A Grave, "George Washington WIlliams (November 27, 1814 - September 29, 1890)," Memorial #57361824, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57361824&ref=acom (accessed June 27, 2017). 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). Hawesville, Hancock County, Kentucky 1861-04-25 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 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 April 25th/61 Dsir/

I am deeply impressed with, the shamefully helpless situation in which, the last legislature has left the State of Kentucky-- with a reputation for shivalry and efficiency in war unsurpassed by by an state she now stands like a fettered giant-- the sport and demeanor of all around us.-- You have discharged your whole duty I admit; but utter no remedy^s^,-- Can the people not do what their faithless representatives have failed to do^s^,-- It has occurred to that efficient men in each County might raise by subscription or other contribution. the necessary funds to buy arms & ammunition --

We want nothing but arms and ammunition and I will vouch for the balance, I merely make the suggestion, your better acquaintance with the sentiments and feelings of the people throughout the state will enable you to Judge as to the practicability of the idea -- I fear verry much that under the Existing state of things we could not procure the arms even if we had the funds--

If your engagements will allow I should be glad to have your views on the whole subject-- we should be armed whether we stand by the Union or go with the South

Yours &c

GW. Williams

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