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Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of William Wadlington. Father of William J. Wadlington. Married to Mary A. J. Cartwright Wadlington in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on December 21, 1850. Father of Thomas M. Wadlington, Mary T. Wadlington, and Ann Babb Wadlington. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1850. Member of the Democratic Party. Caldwell County representative to Kentucky State Democratic Convention in Frankfort in January 1859. Elected Caldwell County representative to Kentucky State Democratic Convention in Frankfort in January 1860. Farmer and convict in Caldwell County in 1860. Household owned seven enslaved persons, including John [Unknown] and Jourdan [Unknown], in Caldwell County in 1860. Convicted by the Caldwell Circuit Court of the murder of Milton A. Cartwright in November 1860. Sentenced to death by the Caldwell Circuit Court in November 1860. Sentence commuted to life in prison by Governor Beriah Magoffin on February 11, 1861. Inmate of the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort from March 21, 1861, to March 21, 1863.
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Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Eli Nichols, Sr. Farmer in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Resident in Caldwell County in 1860. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1863. Served in the 48th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as private from October 26, 1863, to December 15, 1864.
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Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of James Allen Cartwright. Farmer in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1860. Killed by Thomas B. Wadlington in Caldwell County on January 17, 1860.
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Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. Alabama native. Son of Hiram Prince and Nancy E. Prince. Married to Virginia Prince. Resident in Walker County, Georgia, in 1850. Farm laborer in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1860.
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Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Jared Blalock and Mary A. Blalock. Married to Sarah A. Blalock. Father of H. P. Blalock. Student in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farm laborer in Caldwell County in 1860. Household owned nineteen enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860. Served in the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from September 6, 1862, to September 23, 1863. Served in the 12th Kentucky Volunteer Calvary Regiment (U.S.A.) as a sergeant from March 17, 1864, to August 23, 1865.
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Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and state representative. North Carolina native. Married to Mary R. Cameron Edmunds in Orange County, North Carolina, in April 1839. Father of Eliza Edmunds, Charles Edmunds, Augustus Edmunds, William Edmunds, and Mary Edmunds. Attorney in Princeton, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860. Judge in Caldwell County. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Caldwell County until 1862. Killed by guerilla conflict aboard the steamer Nashville in 1862.
Caldwell County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Mrs. J. Watkins. Married to Susan T. Osborn Watkins in Crittenden County, Kentucky, on December 31, 1847. Married to Paulina Gary Watkins c1858. Father of Lucy Watkins. Clerk in Princeton, Kentucky, in 1850. Clerk of the Caldwell Circuit Court in Princeton from 1858 to 1865. Owned six enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1860.
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State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.
Located in the 2nd Judicial District of Kentucky. Judge(s): Thomas C. Dabney and Richard T. Petree. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Edward P. Campbell. Clerk(s): Edmund P. Watkins and James C. Barnes. Deputy clerk(s): William E. Mitchusson.
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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).
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