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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-0001-020-0362 MG18-57

Austin Bingham (Trigg County, Kentucky, laborer. Convicted of murder in 1859.) N00020231 1833? Categories: People

Trigg County, Kentucky, laborer. Tennessee native. Convicted of murder by the Trigg Circuit Court in 1859. Sentenced to death by the Trigg Circuit Court in 1859. Sentence commuted by Governor Beriah Magoffin to 15 years imprisonment in the Kentucky State Penitentiary in 1860. Inmate of the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Jeremiah W. South (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer and keeper of the State Penitentiary)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 281. "Commuted," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), April 13, 1860, p. 1. William Henry Perrin, ed., County of Trigg, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical (Louisville: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884), 59. John J. Dyer, Jr. (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff.) N00020232 1821 1868 Categories: People

Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Kentucky native. Son of John J. Dyer, Sr., and Martha Linn Dyer. Married to Mariah Haydon Dyer in Trigg County, Kentucky, on October 20, 1842. Father of William C. Dyer, Eliza H. Dyer, Rufus K. Dyer, Cyrus Dyer, Amanda Dyer, Lucy Dyer, Julia Dyer, Sidney Dyer, and Mariah Dyer. Farmer in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1850. Sheriff of Trigg County from 1859 to 1862. Owned five enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Austin Bingham (Trigg County, Kentucky, laborer. Convicted of murder in 1859.) Legal: Jeremiah W. South (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer and keeper of the State Penitentiary)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 325A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 44. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 373B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994056, Trigg County Births. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trigg County Marriages, Film 000321335. William Henry Perrin, ed., County of Trigg, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical (Louisville: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884), 32. "John J. Dyer Jr. (1821-1868)," Find A Grave, Memorial 88115825, accessed October 23, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88115825. Jeremiah W. South (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer and keeper of the State Penitentiary) N00003959 1805-07-10 1880-04-15 Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer and keeper of the state penitentiary. Kentucky native. Married to Mary M. South. Father of Eliza South, Ellen South, Samuel South, John South, Martin Van Buren South, Celia South, William T. B. South, James K. Polk South, Patsy South, Lewis Cass South, Moore South, Thomas I. South, Spicey South, and Narcissa South. Member of the Disciples of Christ. Justice of the peace in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for Breathitt County in 1840. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for Breathitt County from 1843 to 1847. Farmer in Breathitt County in 1850. Charter stockholder of the Lexington and Kentucky Railroad Company. Owned ten enslaved persons in Breathitt County in 1860. Keeper of the State Penitentiary of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Frankfort, Kentucky, from 1859 to 1863. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Kentucky State Penitentiary Political: Kentucky State Penitentiary Legal: George W. Gwin (Frankfort, KY, mayor & councilman, merchant, JP) Legal: Kentucky State Penitentiary

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District No. 1, p. 33A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District No. 1, p. 31. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District No. 1, p. 116. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District No. 1, p. 26. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Forks of Elkhorn District, p. 23. William C. Sneed, A Report on the History and Mode of Management of the Kentucky Penitentiary from its Origin, in 1798, to March 1, 1860 (Frankfort: Senate of Kentucky, 1860), 553. Report of the Special Committee on the Penitentiary to the Senate of Kentucky, February 26, 1880, Legislative Document No. 18 (Frankfort: E. H. Porter, 1880). Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky (Louisville: Richard H. Collins, 1877), 772. T. R. C. Hutton, Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013), 24-26, 76, 141. Find A Grave, "Jeremiah Weldon 'Jere' South (1805-1880)," Memorial #7648523, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7648523/jeremiah-weldon-south (accessed January 24, 2018). Trigg County, Kentucky P00000549 Categories: Places

County in far western Kentucky. Seat at Cadiz. Located on the Cumberland River and Tennessee River.

36.865, -87.8353 "Cadiz, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 13, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Virginia T. Alexander, “Trigg County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 899-900. Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Kentucky State Penitentiary O00000266 1798 1884 Categories: Organizations

State prison of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Frankfort, Kentucky. Operated from 1798 to 1884. Keeper(s): Jeremiah W. South (1859-1863) and Harry I. Todd (1863-1871).

Relationships Economic: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper) Legal: Gabriel Endicott (Lawrence County farmer and prisoner for man slaughter) Economic: Ephraim Whitesides (Frankfort, Kentucky, carpenter and assistant keeper of the penitentiary) Legal: Charles Hawkins (Frankfort, Kentucky) Legal: George Knorr (Newport, Kentucky farmer and felon) Legal: Angelo Devoto (Louisville, Kentucky, confectionery shop owner) Legal: James Duddleson (stub, mercer or boyle county) Legal: James Savage (Wayne County farmer and penitentiary inmate) Legal: James Johnson (Campbell County, Kentucky, prisoner) Economic: James Landon Sneed (Franklin County, Kentucky farmer and clerk) Economic: Robert W. Lawler (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard) Legal: William J. Tice (Steele) (Jefferson Co, Frankfort, and Covington, KY) Legal: Felix McDermot (Kenton County laborer and prisoner for grand larceny) Legal: David Schroeder (Louisville, Kentucky, butcher) Legal: Thomas Edrington (Louisville, Kentucky, carpenter and convict) Legal: Francis Pace (Harlan County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Thomas Birmingham (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Legal: Daniel Bush (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Legal: William Nichols (Covington, KY steel mill worker) Legal: Charles T. Sullivan (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident and inmate) Political: James Landon Sneed (Franklin County, Kentucky farmer and clerk) Political: Robert W. Lawler (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard) Political: John T. Hockensmith (Franklin County, KY, prison guard) Political: Luther S. Prentiss (Franklin County, KY, miller) Political: Robert W. Willhoit (Franklin County, Kentucky, petitioner ) Political: R. K. Taylor (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard. ) Political: James Gallahue (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard. ) Political: Thomas J. Frazier (Breathitt County, Kentucky, postmaster, politician, judge, and Register of the Land Office) Political: L. Tobias (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard) Legal: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Wesley [Unknown] (Caldwell County, Kentucky, enslaved man) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Legal: Hezekiah Alexander Jr. (Meade County, Kentucky, resident. ) Legal: William Duerbeck (Ohio River boat steward.) Legal: John Smith (Mont Wilson) (Frankfort, Kentucky, inmate.) Legal: Austin Bingham (Trigg County, Kentucky, laborer. Convicted of murder in 1859.) Legal: Jeremiah W. South (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer and keeper of the State Penitentiary) Legal: John J. Dyer, Jr. (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff.) Legal: William Johnson (Convicted of grand larceny in Franklin Circuit Court in 1863.) Legal: Daniel W. Clark (Kenton County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Stephen W. Duval (McLean County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.)

Calvin Fairbank, Rev. Calvin Fairbank During Slavery Times: How He “Fought the Good Fight” to Prepare “The Way” (Chicago: R. R. McCabe & Co., 1890), 54-56; 104-117; 139-46. J. W. South. “Report of the Keeper and Lessee of the Kentucky Penitentiary to the General Assembly, September 13, 1861,” Legislative Document Series, No. 7 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 3-13. Report of the Special Committee on the Penitentiary to the Senate of Kentucky, February 26, 1880, Legislative Document No. 18 (Frankfort: E. H. Porter, 1880), 78. William C. Sneed, A Report on the History and Mode of Management of the Kentucky Penitentiary from its Origin, in 1798, to March 1, 1860 (Frankfort: Senate of Kentucky, 1860), 553. Note 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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Conditioned however that he, the said Austin Bingham shall consent and does serve in the State Penitentiary at hard labor for the term of fifteen years from the date hereof of his delivery in to said Penitentiary; And upon his acceptance of the foregoing conditions the Sheriff of Trigg Co is hereby ordered ^forthwith^ to deliver the said Bingham safely into the possession charge of the Keeper of the state Penitentiary at Frankfort