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Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney. Trigg County, Kentucky, native. Son of J.H. Miller. Married to Pernecia Wadlington Miller. Father of Rosa Miller, Josiah Miller, Hugh Miller, and Lula Miller. Student in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Caldwell County in 1860. Employed Marina Bowers as a domestic servant in Caldwell County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1860. Delegate to the Kentucky Democratic State Convention in 1860. Died in 1862.
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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. 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, 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, farm laborer. Son of Thomas B. Wadlington. Married to Nancy A. Hayes Wadlington in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in May 1863. Father of Lula Wadlington and Walter Wadlington. Student in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmhand and convict in Caldwell County in 1860. Sentenced to eight years incarceration in 1861 for his involvement in the murder of Milton A. Cartwright in 1860. Pardoned by Governor Magoffin in 1862.
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Caldwell County, Kentucky, enslaved man. Resident in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Enslaved by Mary A. J. Cartwright in 1850. Resident of Caldwell County in 1860. Enslaved by Mary A. J. Cartwright Wadlington and Thomas B. Wadlington in Caldwell County in 1860. Charged, along with Thomas B. Wadlington and William J. Wadlington, with the murder of Milton A. Cartwright in January 1860. Released on bail in February 1860.
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Kentucky soldier, attorney, politician, and public servant. Clark County, Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Combs and Sarah Richardson Combs. Married to Margaret Trotter Combs in 1819. Married to Mary Elizabeth Brownell Combs in 1849. Father of Lizzie B. Combs, Leslie Combs, and F. H. Combs. Educated by the Reverend John Lysle. Deputy clerk of the Courts of Jessamine County, Kentucky. Cadet in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment under General James Winchester and in various capacities under General William Henry Harrison, General Green Clay. Completed education in 1816 and read law with Samuel Q. Richardson in Lexington, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1818. Attorney in Lexington, Kentucky. Member of the Whig Party. Raised a regiment in response to the Texas Revolution in 1836. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1827 to 1829, in 1833, from 1845 to 1847, and from 1857 to 1859. Delegate to the Whig Party Convention, supporting the nomination of Henry Clay, in 1840. Canvassed for William Henry Harrison in the Presidential Election of 1840. Unsuccessful candidate for the House of Representatives of the United States against John C. Breckinridge in 1851. Clerk of the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1866.
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State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.
County in central Kentucky. Seat at Frankfort. Located on the Kentucky River.
County in western Kentucky. Seat at Princeton.
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The affiant th of Jan'y 1860shothiminthethigh, first, and that when Cartwright did shoot, that he (Wadlington) was retreating, and further that before he (Wadlington) shot, he had seen the but end of a revolver in the pocket of Cartwright, who kept his hands in his pocket, from the time he approached the log, up to the time of his shooting. That after he was shot, Cartwright advanced upon him & they closed & that he Wadlington had but a confused idea of what did afterwards occur --
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Affiant says that he after finishing the interview with Thomas B. Wadlington, ^he^ left and found alone ^by himself & no one present^, the particulars of the difficulty & that he said, Cartwright didshootfirst and fully corroborated the statements of his father to me, as to the difficulty -- Affiant is satisified & believes that they (Thomas & William) had had no previous conference beforehand ^in regard to the difficulty^ -- He says further that the negro man
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