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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-029-0550 R4-374

Jefferson County, Kentucky Henry Vonderheide (Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1863/Husband of [unknown] Vonderheider) N00004840 1823? 1876? Categories: People

Dubois County, Indiana, farmer. Native of Hanover, Germany. Married to Anna Maria “Mary” Barth Vonderheide in Louisville on May 3, 1859. Father of Peter Vonderheide and Joseph Vonderheide. Farmer in Dubois County in 1860. Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1863.

Relationships Familial: Anna Maria "Mary" Barth Vonderheide (Resident of Louisville, Kentucky) Economic: Joseph Schenneberger (Louisville, Kentucky, resident)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Dubois County, Bainbridge, p. 954. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Dubois County, Bainbridge, p. 21B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000819610, p. 396. _ Indiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999_, Indiana County, District, and Probate Courts, Dubois County Circuit Court, wills Records, 1841-1882, p. 397 of microfilm (Accessed through ancestry.com on March 3, 2020). KYR-0001-029-0550. Thomas Ryan (Louisville, Kentucky, police officer) N00002655 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, police officer. Police officer for the 1st Ward of Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Joseph Schenneberger (Louisville, Kentucky, resident)

Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1860 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1860), 323. Joseph Schenneberger (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) N00002649 1820? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Subject of the transcript of the case of the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Joseph Schenneberger, dated May 1863.

Relationships Legal: Elizabeth Newton (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Elisha Applegate (Louisville, Kentucky, resident)

KYR-0001-029-0550. KYR-0001-004-0166. Logan Adams Wood (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder, and politician) N00000975 1829? 1904-01-18 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder and politician. Kentucky native. Son of Elias Wood and Jane Wood. Married to Mary Jane Burkart Wood in Pulaski County, Kentucky, on October 24, 1852. Father of William Wood, Lilly Wood, Mattie Wood, John H. Wood, Logan Wood, and Rice Wood. Resident of Pulaski County in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Pulaski County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1852. Attorney in Pulaski County from 1852 to 1860. Editor of the True American newspaper in Pulaski County from 1857 to 1859. Bookbinder in partnership with Lewis A. Civill in Louisville from 1860 to 1861. Attorney in Louisville from 1863 through 1865. Notary public in Louisville in 1863. Member of the Louisville City Council in 1865. Bookbinder in partnership with Lewis A. Civill in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Henry Vonderheide (Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1863/Husband of [unknown] Vonderheider) Social: [Unknown] Schofield (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: William H. Evans (Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot) Legal: Ellen M. Thompson Sharpe Reeder (Louisville, Kentucky, fugitive from justice) Legal: Carter Woodford Tiller (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and deputy city marshal) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, District 2, p. 115A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, District 2, p. 7. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski, Somerset, District 1, p. 154. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 101, p. 61-62. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages, p. 1. "The Press Advertising," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 14 Dec 1857, p. 2. "L.A. Wood, Esq." Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 28 June 1859, p. 1. "Copartnership," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 26 Sept 1860, p. 2. "Jefferson County Court," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 3 Feb 1863, p. 3. "Remains Will Be Sent to Falls City," The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY), January 19, 1904, p. 3. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Henry Tanner, 1861), 55, 267. Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 55, 602. H. Charles Ulman, Lawyers' Record and Official Register of the United States, (New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1872), p. 528. KYR-0001-004-0264. KYR-0001-006-0049. Anna Maria "Mary" Barth Vonderheide (Resident of Louisville, Kentucky) N00004841 1838? Categories: People

Dubois County, Indiana, housekeeper. Native of Prussia. Married to Henry Vonderheide in Louisville on May 3, 1859. Mother of Peter Vonderheide and Joseph Vonderheide. Housekeeper in Dubois County in 1860. Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Dubois County, Bainbridge, p. 954. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Dubois County, Bainbridge, p. 21B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000819610, p. 396. _ Indiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999_, Indiana County, District, and Probate Courts, Dubois County Circuit Court, wills Records, 1841-1882, p. 397 of microfilm (Accessed through ancestry.com on March 3, 2020). KYR-0001-029-0550. John Connell (Louisville, Kentucky, justice of the peace) N00004842 1802? 1872-07-21 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Raymond Connell in Bullitt County, Kentucky on June 28, 1823. Father of Louisa Connell, Nancy Connell, William L. Connell, James M. Connell, David H. Connell, Thomas Connell, Martha J. Connell, Angelina Connell, and Laura A. Connell. Carpenter in Louisville in 1850. Magistrate in Louisville in 1860. Justice of the peace in Louisville in 1864.

Relationships Legal: Anna Maria "Mary" Barth Vonderheide (Resident of Louisville, Kentucky) Legal: Nicholas Simon (Louisville, Kentucky, shoemaker)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 48A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 555. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 344A Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bullitt County Marriages, Film #000482690, p. 38. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007126, Jefferson County Deaths, p 209. KYR-0001-004-1373 Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. 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 County Court O001839 Categories: Organizations

Located in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Andrew Monroe. Clerk(s): Charles M. Thruston and T. Jackson Conn.

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...in the City of Louisville for 1865-6, ed. Edwards, Greenough, & Deved (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 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), 323-24. Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-08-11 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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Affidavit.

The affiant Henry Vonderheider. Says that he was at thehouseofmy ^his^ house in the city of Louisville Ky. when the watchman Thomas Ryan come there for Dr said Joseph Shoennybergly. Shoenbergly had come there for Some feed for his care; about the time Ryan came to my house Said S. went out at the back to door; I had requsted him to hitch up my horse, and he had Just Started, and was going out to the Stable for that purpose as Ryan came up, He did not run ^out of the house^ or make any attempt to get away ^that I saw,^, or make his escape. He did not, nor could not have Seen Ryan coming, for he was in the back room of my house.

Henry Vonderheide

State of Kentucky Jefferson County Sct

Sworn to tbefore me by Henry Vonderheider this 11th day of August 1863.

L A Wood, N. P. for J. C. Ky.

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I am the wife of the within affiant Henry -- Vonderheid and concur with my husband in the Statement made in his affidavit &c and Know that Shenneberger did not attempt to run whin officer Ryan arrested him, and that the officer is mistaken in his testimony &c

Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 13th of August 1863

J,, Connell J. P. J. C