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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-0001-020-0088 MG17A-169

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. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

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).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Legal/Financial 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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