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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-021-0030 MG8-116

Jim Brown (Henderson, Kentucky, enslaved man) N00010547 1828? 1861 Categories: People

Henderson, Kentucky, enslaved man. Owned by Seraphina Pentecost in Henderson County, Kentucky, c.1858. Escaped to Indiana in 1859. Owned by Seraphina Pentecost in Henderson County in 1860. Escaped in 1861. Accused of killing Walter A. Norwood in Henderson County on April 1, 1861. Killed during manhunt in Indiana.

Relationships Social: Walter Alves Norwood (Henderson County, Kentucky, physician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Posey County, Mount Vernon, p. 676. Emily Moses, “On the Border of Freedom,”Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition blog, September 24, 2018, accessed April 11, 2019, http://civilwargovernors.org/on-the-border-of-freedom/. KYR-0001-021-0026. KYR-0001-021-0028. Walter Alves Norwood (Henderson County, Kentucky, physician) N00010545 1806? 1861-04-01 Categories: People

Henderson County, Kentucky, physician. North Carolina native. Son of William Norwood and Robina Hogg Norwood. Married to Mary Lambert Norwood in Henderson, Kentucky, on April 29, 1856. Father of Eliza Norwood and Rebecca Norwood. Attended the University of North Carolina from 1823 to 1826. In partnership with Dr. Robert P. Letcher in Henderson c.1855. Physician in Henderson County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1860. Allegedly murdered by escaped slave, Jim Brown, on April 1, 1861.

Relationships Legal: Lucas W. Trafton (Henderson County, Kentucky, county judge and pvt, capt, & Ass't QM 10th KY Cav CSA) Social: Jim Brown (Henderson, Kentucky, enslaved man)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 85. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, p. 146. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Corydon, p. 37A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Henderson County, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film 001944390, p. 113. "Daily Louisville Democrat, 1861-04-05," Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program, https://kentuckynewspapers.org/catalog/xt7rxw47qw60?q=Dr.+Norwood (accessed April 10, 2019). Kemp B. Battle, “Sketches of the History of University of North Carolina,” in U.S., College Student Lists, 1763-1924 (accessed via Ancestry.com). Alves Norwood Apperson, Genealogy of the Norwood, Hogg, Lovick, Benners and Howell, Garrett, Harrison Lines (Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, 1944), 18, 55, 82. Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, Kentucky, 1887), 558-61. Henderson County, Kentucky P00002891 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Henderson. Located on the Ohio River.

37.8362, -87.59 "Henderson, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. "Henderson County," The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 424. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 137-38. 1861-04-12 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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Henderson Co

$250 Reward for Jim Brown(slave) Murder Dr Norwood

IsdApr 12th 1861