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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0058 MG17A-131

Caldwell County, Kentucky Elias B. Martin (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer.) N00014150 1814-12-17 1892-11-14 Categories: People

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mildred Cantrell Jones in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on March 10, 1853. Father of Charles Martin, William Martin, Pernecia Martin, Willis Martin, and Oscar L. Martin. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1850. Household owned one enslaved person in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1860.

Relationships Social: John W. Prince (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Bradford F. Cantrell (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 370A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 791. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 26B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 225A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Harmony, p. 462B-463A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000546372, p. 58. Find A Grave, "Elias B. Martin (1814-1892)," Memorial #153498604, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153498604 (accessed March 28, 2021). Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) N00011764 1821? 1863-03-21 Categories: People

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.

Relationships Legal: Caldwell Circuit Court Social: Milton A. Cartwright (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Jesse George (Caldwell County, KY, farmer) Social: Bailous Phelps (Caldwell County, KY, farmer and Baptist clergyman) Social: Wade H. Cantrell (Caldwell County, KY, farmer) Social: William H. Carter (Caldwell County, KY, laborer) Social: B. M. Starr (Logan County, KY, drinker of whiskey) Social: Peter P. Baker (Caldwell County, KY, farmer) Social: James M. Harper (Caldwell County, KY, sheriff and farmer) Legal: Kentucky State Penitentiary Legal: Livingston Lindsay (Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: James Milton Dudley (Caldwell county, KY, produce dealer) Familial: William Wadlington, Sr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Caldwell County, Kentucky Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Caldwell County Court Social: James W. Blalock (Caldwell Co, Ky, farm laborer; pvt 8th Cav, sgt 12th Cav) Social: John W. Prince (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer) Legal: James C. Barnes (Princeton, Kentucky, deputy circuit court clerk) Social: Stanley D. Bowers (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and member of provisional government) Social: Jesse Stevens (Caldwell County, Kentucky, sheriff and farmer) Familial: Joseph Fuquay (Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant and farmer) Familial: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Familial: Mary A. J. Cartwright Wadlington (Princeton, Kentucky, governess) Social: James Milton Dudley (Caldwell county, KY, produce dealer) Social: Arthur J. Patterson (Caldwell Co, Ky, attorney, editor) Social: James R. Hewlett (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and attorney) Social: William Howell Edmunds (Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and state representative) Social: Lemuel Pepper (Caldwell Co, Ky, attorney) Social: David W. McGoodwin (Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: John P. Rascoe (Caldwell Co, Ky, farmer and dry goods clerk) Social: George W. Barbour (Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney, one of counsel for Thos Wadlington) Social: Conrad Rohrbach (Caldwell County, Kentucky, blacksmith) Social: James P. McGoodwin (Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: William H. Baley (Caldwell County, Kentucky, dry goods merchant) Social: James A. Carr (Caldwell County, Kentucky, physician) Social: James H. Calvert (Caldwell County, Kentucky, physician, surgeon 25th TN Inf CSA) Social: Perry Blount (Caldwell County, Kentucky, tailor) Social: James Gale (Caldwell County, Kentucky, tailor) Social: Albert Denny (Caldwell County, Kentucky, hotel keeper) Social: Edmund H. Daniel (Caldwell County, Kentucky, laborer) Social: William Thompson Scott (Caldwell County, Kentucky, brickmason and clerk) Social: Bryant N. Dawson (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and constable) Social: James C. Weller (Caldwell County, Kentucky, resident and county clerk) Social: Benjamin J. Mason (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John W. Harpending (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and Wool carder) Social: William H. Calvert (Princeton, Caldwell County, attorney ) Social: William H. Miller (Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: William Wells (Caldwell County, Kentucky, blacksmith) Social: A. Reynolds (Caldwell County, KY, hotel keeper) Social: John Jefferson Wylie (Caldwell County, Kentucky, saddler) Social: John Young Chambers (Caldwell County, Kentucky, tailor and grocer merchant) Social: Henry J. Evans (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Rodolphus B. Ratliff (Caldwell County, KY, gunsmith, farmer, and sheriff) Social: Richard Whittington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, wagon maker and grocery merchant) Social: John G. Pettit (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Albert M. McGoodwin (Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky, student, dry goods merchant; 1st lieut, adj, & capt 3rd Ky Inf CSA) Social: Littleberry Withers (Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky, postmaster) Social: James M. Pierce (Princeton, Kentucky, farmer and prov govt) Social: John J. McLin (Caldwell County, Kentucky, shoemaker and clerk) Social: John Mitchell Higgins (Caldwell County, Kentucky, merchant) Social: Cornelius T. Dabney (Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky, saddler) Social: Charles Henry Ingram (Caldwell County, Kentucky, publisher) Social: James S. Lowey (Caldwell County, Kentucky, wagonmaker & county jailor) Social: James F. Ingram (Caldwell County, Kentucky, town marshal) Social: William E. Mitchusson (Caldwell County, Kentucky, deputy circuit court clerk & farmer) Social: James C. Barnes (Princeton, Kentucky, deputy circuit court clerk) Social: Edmund P. Watkins (Caldwell Co, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Social: Bonaparte P. Glass (Caldwell co. farmer ) Social: George Riley Glass (Caldwell County, Kentucky farmer) Social: John W. Lamb (Caldwell County Kentucky, farmer) Social: Green Berry Glass (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Turner A. Lowey (Caldwell County, Kentucky, carpenter & justice of the peace) Familial: Lucien J. Cartwright (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Brother of Milton A. Cartwright) Social: Eli Nichols, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 48th Ky Mtd Inf USA) Legal: Thomas C. Dabney (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: Caldwell County Jail Social: Francis W. Dodds (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and deputy sheriff.) Social: Zachariah Weeks (Caldwell co., ky, farmer ) Legal: Kentucky Court of Appeals Legal: John W. Prince (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer) Legal: Gideon C. Scott (Caldwell County, Kentucky, student and resident) Legal: James E. McGowan (Caldwell County, KY, laborer) Legal: Thomas S. Johnson (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and coroner's jury member) Legal: Joseph W. Hart (Caldwell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Andrew Jackson Lamb (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Patton Bell Lamb (Caldwell County, KY, resident and farmhand) Legal: Andrew J. Martin (Caldwell County, KY, farmer and pvt 24th Ky Inf Reg.) Legal: Lucien J. Cartwright (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Brother of Milton A. Cartwright) Legal: Samuel C. Campbell (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Eli Nichols, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 48th Ky Mtd Inf USA) Legal: Richard Hunter (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William O'Hara (Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Pleasant Conway (Princeton, Kentucky, farmer and coroner) Legal: William Howell Edmunds (Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and state representative) Legal: Norflet Jones (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James H. Calvert (Caldwell County, Kentucky, physician, surgeon 25th TN Inf CSA) Legal: Harlan & Harlan Legal: Stephen F. Farrow (Caldwell Co, KY, attorney) Legal: Edward P. Campbell (Caldwell County, Ky, 1865 Hopkinsville, Ky, attorney Comwlth Atty in late 1860)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell, District 2, p. 345B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell, Princeton, p. 115. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell, Princeton, p. 221B-222A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film 000851644. "Democratic Meeting in Caldwell" Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), October 23, 1858, p. 2. "Meeting in Caldwell County" Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), October 26, 1859, p. 1. Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Caldwell County Administration Bonds, 1830-1869, p.221-22. Register of Prisoners, 1855-1861, Kentucky State Penitentiary-Frankfort, KDLA, Film 7009891. KYR-0001-020-0079. KYR-0001-025-0073. John W. Prince (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer) N00013981 1843? Categories: People

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.

Relationships Legal: Caldwell Circuit Court Social: Milton A. Cartwright (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Stanley D. Bowers (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and member of provisional government) Legal: Jesse Stevens (Caldwell County, Kentucky, sheriff and farmer) Legal: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Social: Eli Nichols, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 48th Ky Mtd Inf USA) Social: James W. Blalock (Caldwell Co, Ky, farm laborer; pvt 8th Cav, sgt 12th Cav) Legal: Thomas C. Dabney (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Social: Thomas Johnson (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer laborer) Social: James Monroe Pool (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Alfred Williamson (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Oliver Perry Gore (Caldwell County, Ky, farmer ) Social: Moses B. Clark (Caldwell Co., KY, farmer ) Social: Francis S. Martin (Caldwell co. KY, farmer ) Social: Lewis Evins (Lyon / Caldwell County, laborer) Social: Coleman Vaughn (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Bracey Vaughn (Caldwell co. kentucky, farmer ) Social: Bryant O'Neal (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John P. Gracey (Caldwell co., kentucky, farmer) Social: Isaac P. Hollowell (Caldwell County, KY, farmer ) Social: M. Livingston (Caldwel Co. Ky anti-wadlington petitioner) Social: Thomas S. Johnson (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and coroner's jury member) Social: Azariah Rice (Caldwell co., ky, tanner and farmer ) Social: William Cash (Caldwell County, KY, wool carder and grocery merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Georgia, Walker County, Peavine, p. 402B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 55. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Wallonia, p. 168B. James C. Barnes (Princeton, Kentucky, deputy circuit court clerk) N00003859 1837? Categories: People

Caldwell County, Kentucky, deputy court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Richard Barnes and Mary Barnes. Married to M. E. Barnes. Father of Arthur Barnes. Student in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Deputy clerk of Caldwell Circuit Court in Princeton, Kentucky, in 1860. Deputy clerk of Caldwell Circuit Court in Caldwell County in 1861.

Relationships Economic: Caldwell Circuit Court Legal: Caldwell County Court Legal: Caldwell Circuit Court Legal: Stanley D. Bowers (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and member of provisional government) Legal: Edmund P. Watkins (Caldwell Co, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: James H. Calvert (Caldwell County, Kentucky, physician, surgeon 25th TN Inf CSA) Legal: Bradford F. Cantrell (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Elias B. Martin (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Eli Nichols, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 48th Ky Mtd Inf USA) Social: Francis W. Dodds (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and deputy sheriff.) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Francis W. Dodds (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and deputy sheriff.) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Henry Clay Davis (Caldwell co., ky, farm laborer ) Social: John R. Boyd (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 17th KY Cav USA) Social: John J. Crittenden Boyd (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer, corp & musician 48th Ill Inf and corporal 17th KY Cav USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 346A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 109. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 508A. KYR-0001-020-0001. KYR-0001-020-0054. Bradford F. Cantrell (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer.) N00014151 1827? 1885? Categories: People

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of James Cantrell and Hannah Cantrell. Married to Elvira A. Dunning Cantrell. Father of Rodolphus Cantrell, Henry Cantrell, and Edward H. Cantrell. Married to Mary E. Adams Cantrell in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on September 6, 1864. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1850. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Eli Nichols, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 48th Ky Mtd Inf USA) Familial: Elias B. Martin (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John W. Prince (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 349B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 1 of 20 on microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Long Pond, p. 14B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Long Pond, p. 216A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994029, Caldwell County Deaths, p. 3 of 5 of microfilm. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000546374, p. 187. Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Caldwell County Administration Bonds, 1830-1869; Vol 19-20, 1970-1975, p. 502 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com on March 28, 2021). Eli Nichols, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 48th Ky Mtd Inf USA) N00014128 1825? Categories: People

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.

Relationships Social: Mary A. J. Cartwright Wadlington (Princeton, Kentucky, governess) Legal: William S. Talbott (Caldwell County, Kentucky, police judge) Social: John W. Prince (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Elias B. Martin (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Social: William H. Miller (Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: James W. Blalock (Caldwell Co, Ky, farm laborer; pvt 8th Cav, sgt 12th Cav) Social: Milton A. Cartwright (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Turner A. Lowey (Caldwell County, Kentucky, carpenter & justice of the peace) Legal: Edmund P. Watkins (Caldwell Co, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Familial: Green Berry Glass (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Stanley D. Bowers (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and member of provisional government) Social: Durin Clark Lamb (Caldwell co. farm laborer and student ) Social: Andrew Jackson Lamb (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 355B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Caldwell County, KY, June 1863, p. 31. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 398. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 479. KYR-0001-020-0001. Caldwell County, Kentucky P00002472 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Princeton.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

37.1092, -87.882 "Princeton, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 45. Caldwell County, Kentucky 1861-02-09 Legal/Financial English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": 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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Elias Martin says he is and has been acquainted with Thomas B. Wadlington and with his general character for many years, that he lives a neighbor to said Wadlington, that he is an honest upwright and law abiding citizen, and so regarded by his acquaintances. He further states, that he is acquainted with the character of the witness John Prince, and from his character, and from his personal Knowledge of said Prince he does not believe him to be entitled to credit as a sworn witness in a court of Justice, and he does believe, that the evidence he gave in ^the^ case as to the manner of the Killing and as to who committed the first attack is untrue. and he does believe, that said Wadlington has been unjustly convicted on false testimony. He says he knows said Prince well, he said Prince lived with him for a whole year

E B Martin

Sworn to and subscribed before me by Elias B. Martin -- This 9th Feby 1861.

J. C. Barnes D. C.

Caldwell County sct.

B. F. Cantrell and Eli Nichols say they were present when the foregoing affidavit of E. B. Martin was written and signed, and after hearing the same read over do say they believe the statements as made above by said Martin is true, and they do most cordially adopt said Martins affidavit as their own. only that said Prince did not live with them.

B. F. Cantrell Eli. Nichols

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Sworn to and subscribed before me by Eli Nichols and B. F. Cantrell -- This 9th day of Feby 1861.

J. C. Barnes D. C.