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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-0001-020-0252 MG17-220

Owen County, Kentucky Jane [Unknown] (Henry County, Kentucky, enslaved woman) N00010680 1838? Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, enslaved woman. Enslaved by Edward Smith in Henry County, Kentucky. Indicted for the murder of Mary Jane Porter in Henry County in January 1858. Sentenced to be hanged in the Owen Circuit Court on December 14, 1860. Escaped from the Gallatin County jail on December 13, 1860.

Relationships Legal: Leslie Combs (Clerk of the Court of Appeals) Legal: Owen Circuit Court Legal: Kentucky Court of Appeals Legal: Benjamin F. Sidebottom (Owen County, Kentucky, sheriff) Legal: Gallatin County Jail

KYR-0001-020-0252. KYR-0001-020-0248. KYR-0001-020-0249. Benjamin F. Sidebottom (Owen County, Kentucky, sheriff) N00010681 1828? Categories: People

Owen County, Kentucky, sheriff. Kentucky native. Son of John Sidebottom and Sally Sidebottom. Married Mariam Lusby in Owen County, Kentucky on September 20, 1853. Father of William R. Sidebottom, Minnie Sidebottom, Frank Sidebottom. Sheriff in Owen County in 1850. Sheriff in Owen County in 1860. Constable in Owen County, Kentucky in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Jane [Unknown] (Henry County, Kentucky, enslaved woman) Legal: Leslie Combs (Clerk of the Court of Appeals) Legal: Owen Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 215B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1, p. 161. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Owen County Marriages, Film 000272775, p. 69. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Owen County, KY, July 1863, p. 236, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Leslie Combs (Clerk of the Court of Appeals) N00000881 1793-11-29 1881-08-22 Categories: People

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.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Peter Dudley (Frankfort, Military Board, Adj Gen'l and farmer) Legal: George Twyman Wood (Hart County, Kentucky, court clerk and politician.) Legal: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Nathaniel N. Cowgill (Fulton County, KY, minister) Legal: Thomas Johnson (Lexington, Fayette County, resident.) Legal: A. Ginger (Lexington, Fayette County, resident, free man of color.) Legal: Adair Circuit Court Legal: Marion Circuit Court Social: Thomas John Chesnutt (Franklin County soldier and clerk) Social: Richard "Dick" Rowan Bolling (Kentucky attorney and court clerk) Legal: Kentucky Court of Appeals Social: Ira Hart Stout (St. Louis, Missouri, resident and soldier.) Military: United States Army

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 4, p. 102. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 79-80. Lewis Collins, Collins’ Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Collins & Company, 1878), 170. Find A Grave, "Gen Leslie Combs (November 29, 1793-August 22, 1881)," Memorial #8875416, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8875416 (accessed February 9, 2017). 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). Owen Circuit Court O00000483 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 8th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Elijah F. Nuttall and George C. Drane. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Patrick U. Major and John L. Scott. Clerk(s): William Horace Sandford.

Relationships Legal: William "Horace" Sandford (Owenton, Kentucky, sheriff and circuit court clerk) Legal: David Cowder (lawyer and marshal) Legal: Elijah Threlkeld (farmer) Legal: Thomas P. Herndon (sadler)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Owen County, Kentucky 1860-07-14 Legal/Financial 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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Owen Circuit Court July Term 1860 July 14 The comth of Ky Plff vs } Indictment for Murder. Jane. Deft

The court being about to adjourn the defendant was this day brought into Court and being informed of the nature of the indictment, plea, and verdict, was asked if she had any legal cause to show why judgment should not be pronounced against her and none being shown it is adjudged by the Court that the Defendant be taken to jail and there safely Kept until the 14th day of September 1860 on which day between Sunrise and sunset the Sheriff of Owen County shall hang her by the neck until she is dead."

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Jane (a slave)

Warrant of Execution issued Nov. 10. 1860

Friday ^December^ 14th 1860 Setting Friday December 14th 1860. as the day for her execution