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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-0001-029-0588 R4-429

Todd County, Kentucky Elijah Jones (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) N00002690 1837? Categories: People

Todd County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Isaac Jones and Ann Jones. Married to Altozory Linsey Jones in February 1858. Father of Martha J. Jones and William H. Jones. Resident of Todd County in 1850. Farmer in Todd County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Noel N. Stinnett (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Margaret J. Winders Stinnett (Todd County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Joseph W. Bartlett (Todd County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: Neander Stinnett (Todd County, KY, resident) Legal: Leander N. Stennett (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 1, p. 202. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 41. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, Fairview Precinct, p. 38. Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1852-1910, Ancestry, Marriages, Todd County, Kentucky, 1858. William H. Norman (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) N00002691 1814? Categories: People

Todd County, Kentucky, farmer. Tennessee native. Married to Dorithy Norman. Father of Susan Norman, Ezekiel Norman, M. H. Norman, Octavia B. Norman, and Valney Norman. Saddler in Todd County in 1850. Farmer in Todd County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Noel N. Stinnett (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Margaret J. Winders Stinnett (Todd County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Joseph W. Bartlett (Todd County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: Neander Stinnett (Todd County, KY, resident) Legal: Leander N. Stennett (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 1, p. 209. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 111. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, Kirkmansville, p. 1. Noel N. Stinnett (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) N00002692 1815-11-20 1895-01-08 Categories: People

Todd County, Kentucky, farmer. Todd County native. Married to Margaret J. Winders Stinnett. Father of Harriet Stinnett, William W. Stinnett, Nancy Stinnett, Cyrus Stinnett, Leander M. Stinnett, Jasper N. Stinnett, Mary Stinnett, Martha Stinnett, Fidella Stinnett, John Stinnett, and Robert Stinnett. Farmer in Todd County in 1850. Farmer in Todd County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 1, p. 214A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 701. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, Elkton, p. 358B. Kentucky Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates (1911-1955), 1912, Ballard County, Kentucky, KDLA, file no. 9067 (accessed through Ancestry.com). Find A Grave, "Noel N Stinnett (1815-1895)," Memorial #46240908, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46240908/noel-n-stinnett (accessed March 23, 2017). Margaret J. Winders Stinnett (Todd County, Kentucky, resident) N00002693 1822? Categories: People

Todd County, Kentucky, resident. Todd County native. Married to Noel N. Stinnett. Mother of Harriet Stinnett, William W. Stinnett, Nancy Stinnett, Cyrus Stinnett, Leander M. Stinnett, Jasper N. Stinnett, Mary Stinnett, Martha Stinnett, Fidella Stinnett, John Stinnett, and Robert Stinnett.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 1, p. 214A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 701. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, Elkton, p. 358B. Kentucky Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates (1911-1955), 1912, Ballard County, Kentucky, KDLA, file no. 9067 (accessed through Ancestry.com). William T. Kennedy (Todd County, Kentucky, wool carder) N00002694 1805-07-19 1877-06-12 Categories: People

Todd County, Kentucky, wool carder. Kentucky native. Married to Jane Peden Kennedy on July 29, 1823. Married to L. M. Kennedy. Married to Mariah Willoughby Kennedy on December 5, 1861. Father of Laura Kennedy. Wool carder in Todd County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: William H. Norman (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Elijah Jones (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Todd Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 10. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 4, p. 14. Jordan Dodd, Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850, Ancestry, Todd County, 1823. Jordan Dodd, Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850, Ancestry, Todd County, Kentucky, 1861. Find A Grave, "William Thompson Kennedy (1805-1877)," Memorial #47516878, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47516878/william-thompson-kennedy (accessed March 23, 2017). Edward P. Campbell (Caldwell County, Ky, 1865 Hopkinsville, Ky, attorney Comwlth Atty in late 1860) N00002633 1832-10-21 1896-06-30 Categories: People

Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney and commonwealth's attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Campbell and Lucy Wilcox Campbell. Married to Caroline E. Taylor Campbell in 1858. Father of Richard T. Campbell, Edward Thurlo Campbell, Walter Campbell, Charles Campbell, Hugh Campbell, and Flavius Campbell. Graduate of Cumberland College in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1854. Attorney in Caldwell County in 1856. Attorney in Caldwell County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1860. Commonwealth's attorney for the Second Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1868. Resident of Christian County, Kentucky, in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Matthew McCallister (Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William T. Kennedy (Todd County, Kentucky, wool carder) Legal: William H. Norman (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Elijah Jones (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Todd Circuit Court Political: Mortimer D. Hay (Muhlenburg County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Thomas E. Henderson (Trigg County, KY, farmer) Social: William Wells (Caldwell County, Kentucky, blacksmith) Social: John Lewis (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Newman Estes (Caldwell County, Kentucky, grocery merchant) Legal: Caldwell Circuit Court Legal: James S. Lowey (Caldwell County, Kentucky, wagonmaker & county jailor) Legal: John D. Edwards (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and juror) Legal: Robert Wilford (Trigg County, Kentucky, overseer, farmer, and juror) Legal: James Henry Lawrence (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and juror) Legal: Nathan R. Wallace (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and juror) Legal: Clayton Gilliam (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and juror) Legal: William H. Stewart (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and juror) Legal: Francis W. Dodds (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and deputy sheriff.) Legal: Thomas Wynn (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and juror) Legal: James Richardson (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and juror) Legal: Crofford Adair (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and juror) Legal: Thomas Jones (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and juror) Legal: Moses Malone (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and juror) Legal: William M. Gladish (Christian County, Kentucky, farmer, Juror) 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) Familial: Richard T. Campbell (Caldwell County, Kentucky)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 116. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 218B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 389A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994029, Caldwell County Births. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 360. Memorial Records of Western Kentucky, vol. 1 (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), 321-23. Leander N. Stennett (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) N00002695 1846-10 1912-04-24 Categories: People

Todd County, Kentucky, farmer. Todd County, Kentucky native. Son of Noel Stennett and Margaret Stennett. Resident of Todd County in 1850. Farmer in Todd County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: William H. Norman (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Elijah Jones (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Todd Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 1, p. 214. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 701. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, Elkton, p. 358B. Kentucky Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates (1911-1955), 1912, Ballard County, Kentucky, KDLA, file no. 9067 (accessed through Ancestry.com). Neander Stinnett (Todd County, KY, resident) N00002696 Categories: People

Informant on an indictment of Elijah Jones and William Norman in the Todd Circuit Court in 1863. Possible that he is Jasper N. Stinnett, brother of another informant.

KYR-0001-029-0588. Joseph W. Bartlett (Todd County, Kentucky, physician) N00002697 1833-07-27 1911-02-09 Categories: People

Todd County, Kentucky, physician. Robinson, Tennessee native. Son of Joseph S. Bartlett and Manda Porter Bartlett. Married to Moody Ann Coffman Bartlett in September 1859. Father of Eusebia A. Bartlett, Walter E. Bartlett, Sallie Bartlett, Susie E. Bartlett, and Willie L. Bartlett. Physician in Todd County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: William H. Norman (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Elijah Jones (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Todd Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 773. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, Kirkmansville, p. 7. “Aged Physician Dies,” The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), February 10, 1911, p. 8. Kentucky Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates (1911-1955), Ancestry, 1911, Todd County, Kentucky, file no. 4947. Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1852-1910, Ancestry, Marriages, Todd County, Kentucky, 1859. Benjamin T. Perkins, Sr. (Todd County, Kentucky, attorney, circuit court clerk, and county court clerk) N00002698 1818-12-24 Categories: People

Todd County, Kentucky, attorney, circuit court clerk, and county court clerk. Todd County native. Married to Mariah Jane Porter Perkins on May 15, 1842. Father of Francis Marian Perkins, Seymour H. Perkins, Benjamin T. Perkins, Jr., Emmett Perkins, Lucy Perkins, and Lillie Perkins. Studied law with F. E. McLean in Todd County from 1839 to 1840. Admitted to the bar in 1840. County prosecutor for the Todd County Court from 1840 to 1846. Member of the Christian Church. Clerk of the Todd County Court from 1846 to 1870. Clerk of the Todd Circuit Court from 1846 to 1869. Recruited soldiers in Todd County during the Civil War. Delegate to to the National Democratic Convention in Chicago, Illinois, in 1864. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850 and eight in 1860.

Relationships Legal: William H. Norman (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Elijah Jones (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: Todd Circuit Court Legal: William T. Kennedy (Todd County, Kentucky, wool carder) Social: Henry Mitchell (Todd County, Kentucky, tavern keeper and farmer)

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 184-185. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 1, p. 211. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 1, p. 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 1. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, District 4, p. 330. Kentucky, County Marriages, 1783-1965, Ancestry, Todd County, 1842. Thomas S. Page, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1860), p. 293. William T. Samuels, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, 1867), p. 357. D. Howard Smith, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1869 (Frankfort, KY: S. I. M. Major, 1869), p. 173. Todd County, Kentucky P00002675 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Elkton, Kentucky.

36.81, -87.1542 "Elkton, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 2, 2022, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. "Todd County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 888-89. Todd Circuit Court O00000578 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 2nd Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Thomas C. Dabney and R. T. Petree. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): E. P. Campbell. Clerk(s): Benjamin T. Perkins.

Relationships Legal: William H. Norman (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Elijah Jones (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William T. Kennedy (Todd County, Kentucky, wool carder) Legal: Joseph W. Bartlett (Todd County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: Neander Stinnett (Todd County, KY, resident) Legal: Leander N. Stennett (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Margaret J. Winders Stinnett (Todd County, Kentucky, resident) Economic: Benjamin T. Perkins, Sr. (Todd County, Kentucky, attorney, circuit court clerk, and county court clerk) Legal: Henry Mitchell (Todd County, Kentucky, tavern keeper and farmer) Legal: Benjamin T. Perkins, Sr. (Todd County, Kentucky, attorney, circuit court clerk, and county court clerk)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. 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. Todd County, Kentucky Legal/Financial 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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Todd Circuit Court The Commmonwealth of Kentucky against } Indictment April Term 1863 Elijah Jones William Norman

The Grand Jury of Todd County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Elijah Jones, William Norman of the offence of A breach of the peace Committed as follows viz The said Elijah Jones and William Norman on the 10th day of October 1862 in the County "aforesaid" Wilfully and unlawfully by force and armes and with violence entered the House of Noel Stennet and beat bruised and otherwise injured Mrs Margarett Stennett thereby while in possession of said House against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

W T Kennedy Foreman Grand Jury E P Campbell Attorney for the Commonwealth.

Information given by Margarett Stennett Leander Stennett Neander Stennett Dr J N Bartlett

A copy attest Ben T Perkins C T C C