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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-0001-029-0589 R4-430

Lyon County, Kentucky William Boyd (McCracken County, Kentucky, resident) N00002713 Categories: People

McCracken County, Kentucky, resident.

Relationships Legal: Lyon Circuit Court Social: Philip D. Yeiser (Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) Legal: Philip D. Yeiser (Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.)

KYR-0001-029-0096. Philip D. Yeiser (Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) N00002498 1817-11-14 1886-12-02 Categories: People

Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney. Garrard County, Kentucky, native. Son of George Yeiser and Margaret M. Yeiser. Married to Ellen Durham Yeiser. Father of David A. Yeiser. Married to Margaret Craig Yeiser. Father of Ellen Yeiser, Frances Yeiser, and Henry C. Yeiser. Carpenter in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Attorney in Lyon County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned three enslaved persons in Lyon County in 1860. Attorney in Paducah from 1862 to 1886. Commonwealth's attorney for the First Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1864.

Relationships Legal: Thomas E. Reed (Fulton Co, KY, sheriff and farmer) Legal: Charles S. Marshall (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Legal: John T. Bolinger (Graves County, KY, merchant) Political: First Judicial District of Kentucky Political: Graves Circuit Court Economic: Fulton Circuit Court Political: Edward Irwin Bullock (Fulton and Hickman County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Charles S. Marshall (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Political: Hickman Circuit Court Economic: Robert W. Walker (Hickman County, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: Michael Lower Stoner (Hickman County, Kentucky, physician) Familial: George Otho Yeiser, Sr. (Boyle co. merchant / Lyon co. gentleman) Social: William Wilson Hollman (Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky, machinist and liquor dealer) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Lyon Circuit Court Legal: William H. Reader (Indicted for a misdemeanor in Lyon Circuit Court and fined $50 in 1862.) Legal: George B. Grundy (Paducah, KY, sheriff) Legal: William Boyd (McCracken County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Thomas C. Dabney (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Political: Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.) Legal: Rufus K. Williams (Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals) Legal: William L. Mays (McCracken County, KY, farmer) Legal: Richard Yates (Morgan County, Illinois, governor, attorney, representative, and senator)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 358A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, pp. 762-3. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 416A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, p. 127B. William T. Samuels, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, 1866), p. 10. Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume II (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), p. 527. "Deaths," Kentucky Advocate (Danville, KY), December 3, 1886, p. 3. "Phillip D. Yeiser (1817-1883)," Find A Grave, Memorial 84527947, accessed December 28, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84527974. Alexander H. Dudley (Lyon County, Kentucky, court clerk) N00002700 1808? Categories: People

Lyon County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Susanna Anderson Dudley in Todd County, Kentucky, on November 17, 1830. Father of Robert Dudley, Benjamin Dudley, Georgia Dudley, Frances A. Dudley, and Anna Bell Dudley. Married to Marie Dudley. Father of Walter Dudley. Merchant in Fulton County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Fulton County in 1850. Clerk of the Lyon County Court from 1859 to 1864.

Relationships Economic: Lyon Circuit Court Economic: Lyon County Court Legal: Lyon County Court Legal: Lyon Circuit Court Social: John V. Hildreth, Sr. (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer.) Social: William Washington Hildreth (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Nicholas T. Braswell (Lyon County, Kentucky, grocer and landlord.) Social: Charles N. Braswell (Lyon County, Kentucky, naval officer) Social: Alford H. Champion (Lyon County, Kentucky, physician.) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Elias Smith (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Lyon Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fulton County, Hickman, p. 112B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fulton County. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 761. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Todd County Marriages, Film 000367186. "Fourth Congressional District," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), August 8, 1859, p. 1. 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. KYR-0001-029-0096 KYR-0001-029-0548. Lyon Circuit Court O00000412 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): William Sharpe, A. H. Dudley, and John W. Clark.

Relationships Legal: Alexander H. Dudley (Lyon County, Kentucky, court clerk) Economic: Alexander H. Dudley (Lyon County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William Boyd (McCracken County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Philip D. Yeiser (Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) Legal: Charles N. Braswell (Lyon County, Kentucky, naval officer) Legal: Nicholas T. Braswell (Lyon County, Kentucky, grocer and landlord.) Legal: Jacob T. Young (Lyon County, Kentucky, sheriff)

“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. Lyon 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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Lyon Circuit Court. June Term 1862 The Commonwealth Pltff agst } Summons on forfeited Recognizance

Wm Boyd and P D Yeiser &c Defts

This day came the attorney for the Commonwealth, and the Summons issued herein having been returned executed on Wm Boyd & P D Yeiser and they having failed to answer It is adjudged by the Court that the plaintiff, the Commonwealth of Kentucky recover of the defendants Wm Boyd and P D Yeiser The sum of Two hundred dollars the amount specified in the recognizance with interest thereon at the rate of 6 per cent per annum from this date until paid & also for Cost expended herein &c

A true Copy att A. H Dudley clk Lyon Circt Court.