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Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky Drury M. Kevil (Princeton, Kentucky, farmer) N00003856 1808-12-25 1898-10-18 Categories: People

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Lucretia K. Mitchusson Kevil on September 16, 1830. Father of Clarinda Kevil, Thomas R. Kevil, Uriah L. Kevil, James W. Kevil, Mary L. Kevil, Jesse P. Kevil, and Clarissa M. Kevil. Farmer in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Princeton, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Familial: Uriah L. Kevil (Caldwell Co, Ky, farmhand) Social: John B. Wadlington (Caldwell co., ky, farmer ) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 74. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 24. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Harmony, p. 5. "Drury M Kevil (1808-1898)," Find A Grave, Memorial #124712918, accessed April 7, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124712918. KYR-0001-029-0539. Uriah L. Kevil (Caldwell Co, Ky, farmhand) N00002080 1839-03-09 1923-07-28 Categories: People

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmhand. Kentucky native. Son of Drury M. Kevil and Lucretia K. Kevil. Resident of Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmhand in Princeton in 1860.

Relationships Social: Pleasant Conway (Princeton, Kentucky, farmer and coroner) Social: Jacob Doudel Yeiser (Eddyville, Kentucky, druggist and physician) Social: Edmund P. Watkins (Caldwell Co, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Edmund P. Watkins (Caldwell Co, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Lyon Circuit Court Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 377B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 34. "Uriah Laban Kevil (1839-1923)," Find A Grave, Memorial #11094637, accessed August 21, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11094637. Benjamin M. Winston (Union County, Kentucky, merchant, postmaster, and soldier) N00003857 1815? Categories: People

Union County, Kentucky, merchant, postmaster, and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Annie Elizabeth Long Winston in Union County on September 26, 1850. Father of Charles Winston, Louisa Winston, Virginia Winston, and William Winston. Merchant in Union County in 1850. Postmaster for Caseyville in Union County from July 6, 1853, to June 26, 1855. Merchant in Union County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Union County in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861. Served in Winston's Scouts (C.S.A.) as a captain from 1861 to 1865.

Relationships Military: Winston’s Scouts (C.S.A.) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Hosea A. Pierson (Union County, Kentucky, minister, post master, merchant, and police judge.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 2, p. 519A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Caseyville, p. 559. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Caseyville, p. 420A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson Ward 2, p. 106B. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 529C. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Union County Marriages, Film 000562200. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication M841, Records of the Post Office Department, RG 28, Union County, Kentucky, Volume 14, p. 732. U. S. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: Formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1897. Volume 53, pp. 1161, 1173-4, 1303. KYR-0001-029-0538. KYR-0001-029-0539. KYR-0004-033-0001. Jacob Doudel Yeiser (Eddyville, Kentucky, druggist and physician) N00002085 1822-10-20 1908-11-24 Categories: People

Eddyville, Kentucky, druggist and physician. Kentucky native. Married to Mary V. Craig Yeiser. Father of Alma B. Yeiser, Edwin R. Yeiser, Charles C. Yeiser, and Cornelia Yeiser. Graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Louisville in 1861. Farmer in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1850. Druggist in Eddyville in 1860. Physician in Lyon County, Kentucky, in 1863.

Relationships Legal: William Vaughn (Juror in the Lyon Circuit Court and Petitioner in Princeton, Kentucky) Legal: William H. Harris (Eddyville, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Nathan Oliver (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Levi W. Jones (Lyon County) Legal: Alfred Brock (Eddyville, Kentucky, painter) Legal: Uriah L. Kevil (Caldwell Co, Ky, farmhand) Legal: Lyon Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 367; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 762; U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935, Ancestry, University of Louisville, 1861, p. 27; U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Ancestry, Kentucky, 1863, Collection District 1, Division 20, p. 7; Find A Grave, "Dr. Jacob Doudel Yeiser (1822-1908)," Memorial #105280392, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=105280392 (accessed August 21, 2017). Pleasant Conway (Princeton, Kentucky, farmer and coroner) N00003860 1807? Categories: People

Princeton, Kentucky, farmer and coroner. Virginia native. Married to Louisa A. Conway. Father of Mary B. Conway, Fidelia Caroline Conway, Francis A. Conway, William P. Conway, Henry J. Conway, and Albert B. Conway. Farmer in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Princeton in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860. Coroner for Caldwell County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Edmund P. Watkins (Caldwell Co, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: James C. Barnes (Princeton, Kentucky, deputy circuit court clerk) Legal: Thomas S. Johnson (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and coroner's jury member) Legal: Norflet Jones (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Edward M. Martin (Caldwell County, KY, farmer )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 377B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 802. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 33. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 23. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 498A. KYR-0001-020-0001. KYR-0001-029-0539. James C. Barnes (Princeton, Kentucky, deputy circuit court clerk) N00003859 1837? Categories: People

Caldwell County, Kentucky, deputy court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Richard Barnes and Mary Barnes. Married to M. E. Barnes. Father of Arthur Barnes. Student in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Deputy clerk of Caldwell Circuit Court in Princeton, Kentucky, in 1860. Deputy clerk of Caldwell Circuit Court in Caldwell County in 1861.

Relationships Economic: Caldwell Circuit Court Legal: Caldwell County Court Legal: Caldwell Circuit Court Legal: Stanley D. Bowers (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and member of provisional government) Legal: Edmund P. Watkins (Caldwell Co, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: James H. Calvert (Caldwell County, Kentucky, physician, surgeon 25th TN Inf CSA) Legal: Bradford F. Cantrell (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Elias B. Martin (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Eli Nichols, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 48th Ky Mtd Inf USA) Social: Francis W. Dodds (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and deputy sheriff.) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Francis W. Dodds (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and deputy sheriff.) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Henry Clay Davis (Caldwell co., ky, farm laborer ) Social: John R. Boyd (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 17th KY Cav USA) Social: John J. Crittenden Boyd (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer, corp & musician 48th Ill Inf and corporal 17th KY Cav USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 346A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 109. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 508A. KYR-0001-020-0001. KYR-0001-020-0054. Orlando Brown (Frankfort Newspaperman) N00008364 1801-09-26 1867-07-26 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, newspaper editor. Frankfort native. Son of John Brown and Margaretta Mason Brown. Married Mary Watts Brown on July 29, 1830. Father of Euphemia Brown, John Brown, and Orlando Brown, Jr. Married Mary Price Brodhead Brown on October 12, 1852. Studied with Kean O'Hara in Danville, Kentucky. Graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1820. Graduated from law school at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1823. Practiced law in Alabama. Practiced law in Frankfort in 1830. Owned and edited the Frankfort Commonwealth in Frankfort from 1833 to 1842. Corresponding secretary of the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort in 1836. Appointed Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Kentucky by John J. Crittenden in 1848. United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs under Zachary Taylor from June 30, 1849 to July 1, 1850. Editor of the Frankfort Commonwealth in Frankfort in 1862.

Relationships Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor)

Frank F. Mathias, "Orlando Brown" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 130-31. Caldwell County, Kentucky P00002472 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Princeton.

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

37.1092, -87.882 "Princeton, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 45. Princeton, Kentucky P00002273 Categories: Places

Seat of Caldwell County, Kentucky.

37.1092, -87.882 "Princeton" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 741-42. "Princeton, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 243-44. Winston’s Scouts (C.S.A.) O00003858 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

A Confederate military unit in western Kentucky.

Relationships Military: Benjamin M. Winston (Union County, Kentucky, merchant, postmaster, and soldier)

KYR-0001-029-0538. KYR-0001-029-0539. Caldwell Circuit Court O00000363 1809 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 2nd Judicial District of Kentucky. Judge(s): Thomas C. Dabney and Richard T. Petree. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Edward P. Campbell. Clerk(s): Edmund P. Watkins and James C. Barnes. Deputy clerk(s): William E. Mitchusson.

Relationships Economic: Edmund P. Watkins (Caldwell Co, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Legal: Theophilus Cooksey (Caldwell County, Kentucky, carpenter and veteran) Legal: James A. Johnson (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Wells (Caldwell County, Kentucky, blacksmith) Legal: John Lewis (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Newman Estes (Caldwell County, Kentucky, grocery merchant) Legal: James C. Weller (Caldwell County, Kentucky, resident and county clerk) Legal: William E. Mitchusson (Caldwell County, Kentucky, deputy circuit court clerk & farmer) Legal: James C. Barnes (Princeton, Kentucky, deputy circuit court clerk) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Legal: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Edmund P. Watkins (Caldwell Co, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Henry J. Stites (Christian County, Kentucky, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals) Legal: James W. Blalock (Caldwell Co, Ky, farm laborer; pvt 8th Cav, sgt 12th Cav) Legal: John W. Prince (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer) Legal: Milton A. Cartwright (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Wadlington, Sr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Thomas C. Dabney (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: Mary A. J. Cartwright Wadlington (Princeton, Kentucky, governess) Legal: John R. Boyd (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 17th KY Cav USA) Legal: John J. Crittenden Boyd (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer, corp & musician 48th Ill Inf and corporal 17th KY Cav USA) Legal: Linn B. Baker (Trigg County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier in 1st Ky cav, CSA) Legal: Edna Gresham Baker (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and housewife) Legal: Leander Baker (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier in 47th Ky Mounted Infantry)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59. 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. Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky 1863-08-03 Legal/Financial English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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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Bet it known that I have been living in Caldwell County Ky about 30 years and am ^and^ have been a near neighbour to Drury Kevil for many years I was at said Kevils house on Sabbath Morning Feby 1861 Uriah Kevil The Son of Drury Kevil was at home when I went to said Kevils. -- Some time in the Morning Captain Winston whose Camp was Some two miles from my house tho I had never been at it and some twenty to twenty five men called at Mr Kevils and the Captain inquired if Uriah Kevil knew the way to Dr Yiezers -- who on stating that he did was required by Winston to accompany him and show him the way. And in about two hours Winston this Company returned by said Drury Kevils and went on to his Camp as I was informed by Uriah Kevil who did not go on with the Company but stopped at his Fathers house Princeton Ky August 3rd 1863

P.. Conway

sworn to before me by P. Conway this 4th day of August 1863.

J. C. Barnes Exr C. C.

We beleive P. Conway whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit is a man of truth and veracity and ^his^ statements when made under oath or otherwise is entitled to full faith and credit. Mr Conway has resided in Caldwell County Ky. for many years and We are well acquainted with him August 4 1863.

E. P. Watkins clerk

Caldwell Circuit Court

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