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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Appointments by the Governor, Civil Appointments, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-031-0029 R1-64

Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky Joseph E. Gregg (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer, nurseryman, and justice of the peace) N00016246 1824? 1862 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer, nurseryman, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Zerelda Johnson Gregg in Scott County, Kentucky, on June 20, 1844. Father of Penelope Gregg, Cynthia Adelia Gregg, Malvina Gregg, Henry Francis Gregg, Joseph Breckenridge Gregg, Mary Serene Gregg, and Minerva Gregg. Farmer in Scott County in 1850. Farmer and nurseryman in Scott County in 1860. Justice of the Peace in Scott County in 1862. Died in Scott County in 1862.

Relationships Political: Scott County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 437A-B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 835. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, Film #000183225. KYR-0001-031-0029. Flavius Josephus Dehoney (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) N00016263 1831 1898-05-11 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Son of Willis Dehoney and Lydia Gatewood Dehoney. Married to Martha C. Davis Dehoney in Woodford County, Kentucky, on September 2, 1857. Father of Dudley Ward Dehoney, Temple L. Dehoney, and Margaret Dehoney. Resident in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned eleven enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Farmer in Scott County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Justice of the Peace in Scott County in 1862. Farmer in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1863.

Relationships Military: Confederate States Army Political: Scott County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 467A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 641. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 890. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 215A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Court House, p. 64A. Confederate Papers Relating to Citizens or Business Firms, 1861-65, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M346, Roll #0237. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Franklin County, KY, July 1863, p. 3. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Woodford County Marriages, Film #000252320. Carol J. Gothberg, John and Amy Gatewood, and their Descendants, 1666-1986 (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press Inc., 1987) 264-65. "Flavius Josephus Dehoney (1898)," Find A Grave, Memorial #196610238, accessed November 1, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196610238. KYR-0001-031-0029. Joel Ammerman (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer ) N00016247 1822 1910 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Son of Azubah Ammerman. Married to Amanda Jane Allen Ammerman in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on January 29, 1852. Father of Susan Ammerman, Ida Ammerman, and Allen Ammerman. Farmer in Harrison County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Scott County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Farmer in Scott County in 1863.

Relationships Political: John G. Morrison (Scott County, Kentucky, judge and private banker)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 143B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 806. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 241A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, Oxford, p. 308A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Scott County, KY, July 1863, p. 1. "Joel Ammerman (1822-1910)," Find A Grave, Memorial #22206736, accessed October 31, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22206736. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film #000216817. KYR-0001-031-0029. KYR-0001-031-0074. Bennett Branham (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer ) N00016248 1823-04-10 1896-07-19 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John Branham and Susan Quinn Branham. Married to Lucy Ann Quinn Branham in Scott County, Kentucky, on May 20, 1847. Father of Amanda Branham, Susan Branham, and Sidney Branham. Farmer in Scott County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Farmer in Scott County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 457A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 629. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 928. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 220A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, Georgetown, p. 228A-B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, Film #000183225, p. 237 of 331 of microfilm. Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. 101: 1913, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939), p. 221. "Bennett Branham (1823-1896)," Find A Grave, Memorial #223896979, accessed October 31, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/223896979. John G. Morrison (Scott County, Kentucky, judge and private banker) N00005217 1810-10 1884-01-21 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, judge, farmer, manufacturer, and banker. Ohio native. Married to Nancy Buford Johnson Morrison on September 1, 1836. Father of Edward Ann Morrison, Helen S. Morrison, Nancy J. Morrison, Adelaide Morrison, and John W. Morrison. Farmer and manufacturer in Scott County in 1850. Owned twenty-three enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Private banker in Scott County in 1860. Owned twenty-two enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Judge of Scott County Court in Scott County in 1864.

Relationships Legal: John Spencer (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Rial [Unknown] (Scott County, KY, enslaved person) Legal: William B. Galloway (Scott Co, KY, farmer) Political: Scott County Court Political: Bennett Branham (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer ) Political: Joel Ammerman (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer ) Legal: Flavius Josephus Dehoney (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Legal: Joseph E. Gregg (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer, nurseryman, and justice of the peace)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 460A-B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 633. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, Georgetown, p. 1006. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 234B, 235A, 236B, and 237B. "John G. Morrison (unknown-1884)," Find A Grave, Memorial #99164909, accessed May, 31, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99164909. KYR-0001-005-0017. Stephen F. Gano (Scott County, Kentucky, physician, farmer, KY state rep, lieutenant-colonel and surgeon (U.S.A.)) N00016249 1807-04-02 1901 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, physician, farmer, politician, and soldier. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Son of Richard Gano and Elizabeth Ewing Gano. Married to Mary Jane Herndon Gano in 1831. Father of Cornelia Gano Long, Robert Gano, Bettie Gano, and William Gano. Graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1828. Whig member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County in 1837. Farmer and manufacturer in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1840. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Scott County in 1840. Whig member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County in 1847. Physician in Scott County in 1850. Owned seventeen enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Farmer and physician in Scott County in 1860. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Served in the 7th District of Kentucky (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel and surgeon from 1862 to 1865.

Relationships Political: John G. Morrison (Scott County, Kentucky, judge and private banker) Political: Scott County Court Political: Bennett Branham (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer ) Political: Joel Ammerman (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer ) Legal: Flavius Josephus Dehoney (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Legal: Joseph E. Gregg (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer, nurseryman, and justice of the peace)

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, p. 100. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 408A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 10-11. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 820. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 246A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, Film 000183225. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 632. "Dr. Stephen F. Gano (1807-1901)," Find A Grave, Memorial 101569489, accessed October 31, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101569489. Georgetown, Kentucky P001838 Categories: Places

Seat of Scott County, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 “Georgetown,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 371. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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). Scott County, Kentucky P001030 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Georgetown, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 Ann Bolton Bevins, "Scott County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1992), 805-06. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Scott County Court O00000715 Categories: Organizations

Located in Georgetown, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailer, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): John G. Morrison. Clerk(s): S. W. Thompson and James F. Beatty.

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. Confederate States Army O00000506 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

Military forces of the Confederate States of America, administered by the Confederate War Department. Commander(s): General Robert E. Lee (1862-1865).

Relationships Military: William Harris (possible confederate soldier) Military: United States Army Military: John L. Morrison (La Salle County, Illinois, farmer and soldier) Military: Marshall Wright Chapin (Monroe County, Michigan, farmer and soldier.) Military: William E. Hobson (Warren County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) Political: John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) Military: [Unknown] Cameron (Confederate soldier) Military: Richard Montgomery Gano (Texas, Confederate brigadier general) Military: Jefferson Davis (CS President) Military: Confederate States of America Military: Congress of the Confederate States of America Military: Provisional Council Military: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Provisional Council Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Committee on Banks Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt) Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: James H. Orr (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, sergeant and second lieutenant (C.S.A.) ) Military: Reddick Nichols (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and)

Henry Putney Beers, The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1968, reprinted 1986), 259. Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky 1862-10-29 Correspondence 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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GeorgetownOctr 29th 1862 Dear Sir

There are two vacancies on the Bench of the Scott County Court, one in the Oxford District ^No 7^ caused by the Death of Joseph E. Gregg, and one in the White Sulpher District ^No. 2^ caused by the Esqr Josephus Dehoney having I joined the Rebel Armyand left the State See Acts of the Legislature passed in Dec 1861 page -- 52. We would respectfully recommend the appointment by your Excellency of Joel Ammerman in the Oxford District, and of the appointment of Bennet Branham in the White Sulpher District, both of whom are good and Loyal men. and that the appointments be made this week, and Commissions forward by Friday next, in order that the Appointees may be notified before Monday next Nov 3d to assist in allowing the County claims &C &C

Very Respectfully

J. G. Morrison S. F. Gano

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Scott Co

J. P. Dist No 2 & 7

Apps made Octo 30. 1862