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Lyman Guinnip (Danville, Illinois, colonel (U.S.A.).) N00010702 1828-08-31 1892-08-04 Categories: People

Danville, Illinois, soldier. Steuben County, New York native. Son of Lydia Guinnip. Married to Anna E. Palmer in 1857. Father of Horace D. Guinnip, Grace Guinnip. Served in the 1st Illinois Infantry Regiment as private during the Mexican-American War. Resident of Clark County in 1850. Resident of Danville in 1862. Served in the 79th Illinois Volunteer Infantry as colonel from August 28, 1862, to October 17, 1862, when he resigned.

Relationships Military: 79th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) Legal: John S. Owsley (Lincoln County, Kentucky, ) Legal: James Garland Carter (Louisville Dry Goods Merchant) Legal: Charles Ovington (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, moulder, watchman and police officer. ) Legal: Thomas Reaugh (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, vol. 5 (Springfield: Phillips Brothers State Printers, 1901), 48. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, Clark, York, p. 244A. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Illinois, Cook, Chicago, p. 171C. "Colorful colonel's gravestone dedicated," Commercial News, November 12, 2017, Danville, Illinois (accessed May 28, 2019). "Caught in an Elevator: Colonel Guinnip Instantly Killed at the Farmers' Dairy Company Building," The Inter Ocean, August 5, 1892, Chicago, Illinois (accessed May 28, 2019). Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed, March 17, 1863, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 6 (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2008), p. 207. Record of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in the Black Hawk War and in the Mexican War, ed. Isaac H. Elliott (Springfield: Journal Company, Printers and Binders, 1902), p.207. Cornelius G. Bradshaw (Douglas County, Illinois, chaplain (U.S.A.)) N00010703 1839? 1906-09-20 Categories: People

Douglas County, Illinois, chaplain (U.S.A.). Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Bradshaw. Father of Cornelia Bradshaw. Resident in Piatt County, Illinois, in 1860. Resident of Douglas County, Illinois in 1862. Served in the 79th Illinois Volunteer Infantry as Chaplain from August 28, 1862, to September 11, 1863.

Relationships Military: 79th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) Military: Lyman Guinnip (Vermilion County, Illinois, soldier.) Legal: James Robert Hughes (Washington County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: John S. Owsley (Lincoln County, Kentucky, ) Legal: H. H. Crutcher (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James Garland Carter (Louisville Dry Goods Merchant) Legal: Charles Ovington (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, moulder, watchman and police officer. ) Legal: Thomas Reaugh (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, vol. 5 (Springfield: Phillips Brothers State Printers, 1901), 28. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Piatt, Willow Branch, p. 6. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, McLean, Normal, p. 559A. Washington, D.C., Wills and Probate Records, Box 296 (accessed via ancestry.com on May 29, 2019). John S. Owsley (Lincoln County, Kentucky, ) N00010701 1840-10-03 1914-01-24 Categories: People

Lincoln County, Kentucky, resident. Lincoln County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Owsley and Eliza W. Owsley. Married to Susan Malinda Miller Owsley in Madison County, Kentucky, on October 15, 1861. Father of Mary E. Owsley. Resident of Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned twenty-nine enslaved persons in Lincoln County in 1850. Resident of Lincoln County in 1860. Household owned twenty-nine enslaved persons in Lincoln County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: H. H. Crutcher (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2, p. 303A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Crab Orchard, p. 59. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, pp. 346A-B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford Precinct, p. 98B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Madison County Marriages, Film 000183317. "Mr. J.S. Owsley Passes Away," Lexington Leader (Lexington, KY), January 24, 1914), p. 1. "John Samuel Owsley Sr. (1840-1914)," Find A Grave, Memorial 39900723, accessed April 3, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39900723. James Robert Dupuy (Commonwealth's Atty Louisville (7th) district) N002002 1831-08-04 1912-05-17 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Florence Low Dupuy in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on February 24, 1863. Father of Andrew L. Dupuy. Attended law school at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1856 to 1857. Attended law school at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1857. Commonwealth's attorney for the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1866.

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

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 9, p. 221B. 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. A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University, for the Academical Year 1856-57: Second Term (Cambridge, Mass.: John Bartlett, 1857), 51. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819616. Roger M. Grace, “J. R. Dupuy: Most Obscure DA in Los Angeles County’s History,” Perspectives, Los Angeles Metropolitan News-Enterprise, p. 7, November 4, 2006. "James Robert Dupuy (1831-1912)," Find A Grave, Memorial 90140026, accessed August, 8, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90140026. Charles Ovington (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, moulder, watchman and police officer. ) N00019562 1831-10-04 1895-02-26 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, moulder. Native of Canada. Son of Charles Ovington and Hanna Webb Ovington. Married to Francis R. Smith in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on April 24, 1856. Father of Francis “Fannie” Ovington, Margaret Ovington, Carrie Ovington and Harriet Ovington. Moulder in Louisville in 1850. Moulder in Louisville in 1860. Watchman in Louisville in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 302B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 511. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 10, p. 8. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 7007129, Jefferson County Deaths. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819605. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 12938. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 190. "Charles S. Ovington (1832-26 Feb 1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial 127001661, accessed March 15, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127001661. Thomas Reaugh (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman) N00010728 1809? 1870? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, policeman. Married Ann "Annie" Uptonia Beckwith Reaugh in Jefferson County, Kentucky on January 10, 1837. Father of Upton B. Reaugh and Fanny Reaugh. Constable in Louisville in 1850. Policeman in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Legal: James Robert Hughes (Washington County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: Cornelius G. Bradshaw (Douglas County, Illinois, chaplain (U.S.A.)) Legal: Lyman Guinnip (Vermilion County, Illinois, soldier.) Legal: John S. Owsley (Lincoln County, Kentucky, ) Legal: H. H. Crutcher (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, County, Louisville District 2, p. 180A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 4, p. 100. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Richland, Olney Ward 2, p. 609A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482706, p. 198. James P. Chambers (Jefferson Co, Ky, court clerk and attorney) N002041 1830? 1898 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Chambers. Father of Samuel Chambers and Henry Chambers. Graduate of University of Louisville law school in 1847. Confirmed as a notary public in Jefferson County on February 5, 1861. Clerk of the Jefferson Circuit Court from 1861 to 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 71. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 7007129: Jefferson County, Books 9-11, p. 445. Catalogue of the Officers and Students in the Law Department of the University of Louisville, Session of 1859-’60 (Louisville: Hull & Brother, 1860), 9. Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., in the City of Louisville, for 1865-6, eds. Edward, Greenough, and DeVed (Louisville: Edward, Greenough, & DeVed, 1866), 243. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 54. 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), 303-308. 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), 301-306. 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), 347-350. KYR-0001-017-0062. James Garland Carter (Louisville Dry Goods Merchant) N00005663 1825 1889 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant. Simpson County, Kentucky, native. Married to Melvilla Brown Carter in LaRue County, Kentucky, on June 5, 1855. Father of Edwin L. Carter, Allen R. Carter, and James G. Carter, Jr. Merchant in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Joseph Gaston (Salem, Indiana) Legal: Seymour Edwards (Louisville Child (thief))

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 45. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 53. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, LaRue County Marriages, Film 000409559. "Merchant and Christian," The Courier Journal (Louisville, KY), December 18, 1889, p. 6. "James Garland Carter, Sr. (1825-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial 83020668, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83020668 (accessed May 11, 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). Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Jefferson Circuit Court O001000 1850 Categories: Organizations

Part of the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky. Serves Jefferson County, Kentucky, with courthouse at Louisville. Judge(s): Peter B. Muir, George W. Johnston. Commonwealth's Attorney(s): Edwin S. Craig, James R. Dupuy. Clerk(s): James P. Chambers

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. Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough, & Deved, pub., 1866), 155. J. D. Campbell’s Louisville Business Directory for 1864, ed. J. D. Campbell (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Publisher, Bookseller, Printer and Bookbinder, 1864), 70. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 324. 1863-01 Legal/Financial English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 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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STATE AND COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, JEFFERSON COUNTY AND CIRCUIT, SCT. Against Lyman Guinnip and C G Bradshaw January Term of the Jefferson Circuit Court, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three

The Jurors of the Grand Jury, impannelled and sworn to inquire in and for the body of the County of Jefferson, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, on their oath, present that Lyman Guinnip and C G Bradshaw late of said County, on the 17th day of October in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two in the said County of Jefferson, and State of Kentucky, with force and arms committed the crime of Grand Larceny as follows towit. The said Lyman Guinnip and C G Bradshaw on the 17th day of October A D 1862 in the County aforesaid, One buggy and one set of harness of the value of One hundred dollars. of the goods and chattels of John S. Owsley then and there being and found, feloniously did steal, take, and carry away, contrary to the form of the Statute, in that case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

J R Dupuy. Comth atty.

Witnesses for the Commonwealth: Jno S Owsley Charles Ovington Thomas Reaugh.

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Commonwealth vs. } Indictment Grand Larceny

Lyman Guinnip & C G Bradshaw A true bill J G Carter Foreman

1863 Jany 13 Recd from Grand jury & filed 16 reco of Guinnip forft & money deposited in lieu of bail as credited to Jury fund & cont & caps " Jany 23 Reco of Bradshaw forfeited, Sci fa awd & money deposited in lieu of bail accredited to jury fund & cont & caps.

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