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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-0001-031-0039 R1-80

Mercer County, Kentucky Sidney S. McFatridge (Mercer County, KY, farmer & sheriff) N00002330 1820? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah K. Kirby McFatridge in Mercer County, Kentucky, in November 1847. Farmer in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Mercer County in 1850. Farmer in Mercer County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Mercer County in 1860. Sheriff of Mercer County from 1861 to November 1862.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA) Social: Lorenzo Hobbs Noble (Lebanon, Marion Co, Kentucky, attorney & commonwealth's atty) Social: Andrew Galbraith Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer; president of Harrodsburg Savings Institution) Social: James Taylor (Mercer County, KY, attorney) Social: William M. Tomlinson (Mercer County, KY, physician and farmer) Social: John Glover Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, & col Mercer Co militia) Political: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Political: John Kemper Slaughter (Mercer County Broom Maker) Legal: John "Isaac" C. Vanarsdall (Mercer County, Kentucky, sheriff. ) Legal: William Payne (Mercer County, merchant and farmer) Legal: George W. Tompkins (Mercer County, sheriff) Legal: Benjamin Casey Allin (Mercer County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Nimrod Harris (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Thomas H. Buckner (Mercer County, KY, planter) Legal: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Legal: Thomas Allin (Mercer County, county clerk) Legal: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Legal: Theodore H. Daviess (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Mercer County Court Political: Thomas Edwards (Mercer County, Kentucky, druggist & judge) Legal: Corydon Sackett Abell (Mercer County, Kentucky, physician, Mercer Co Court clerk, State Rep)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 284A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 880. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, page 717. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 50A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film 000191859, p. 483. 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), 181. KYR-0001-031-0048. John "Isaac" C. Vanarsdall (Mercer County, Kentucky, sheriff. ) N00010533 1804? 1890 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy Smock Vanarsdall in Mercer County, Kentucky, in October 1824. Father of Thomas Vanarsdall, James T. Vanarsdall, Elizabeth Rose Vanarsdall, B. Frank Vanarsdall, and Nimrod Vanarsdall. Constable in Mercer County in 1850. Sheriff of Mercer County in 1860. Sheriff of Mercer County from November 5, 1862. Sheriff of Mercer County in 1863. Sheriff of Mercer County in 1864.

Relationships Economic: Mercer Circuit Court Legal: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Legal: William Payne (Mercer County, merchant and farmer) Legal: George W. Tompkins (Mercer County, sheriff) Legal: Benjamin Casey Allin (Mercer County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Nimrod Harris (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Thomas H. Buckner (Mercer County, KY, planter) Legal: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Legal: Thomas Allin (Mercer County, county clerk) Legal: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Legal: Theodore H. Daviess (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Holman R. Crow (Jessamine County, Kentucky, carpenter and livery keeper) Legal: Eli Crow (Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant) Legal: Mercer Circuit Court Political: Mercer County Court Political: Thomas Edwards (Mercer County, Kentucky, druggist & judge) Legal: Corydon Sackett Abell (Mercer County, Kentucky, physician, Mercer Co Court clerk, State Rep)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 246B-247A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 773. 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), 175. 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), 175. "John Isaac Van Arsdale (c1804-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial #5040634, accessed April 5, 2019, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5040634. KYR-0001-004-1095. KYR-0001-031-0039. KYR-0001-031-0048. Thomas Edwards (Mercer County, Kentucky, druggist & judge) N00003674 1806-09-29 1882-01-31 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, druggist and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy E. Edwards. Father of William W. Edwards, Mary Y. Edwards, William H. H. Edwards, Alice Edwards, James Edwards, and Ann E. Edwards. Druggist in Mercer County in 1860. Presiding judge of the Mercer County Court in Harrodsburg from 1860 to 1865.

Relationships Legal: Mercer County Court Economic: Mercer Circuit Court Legal: Mercer Circuit Court Legal: Leticia Gray (Mercer County) Economic: Mercer County Court Political: Mercer County Court Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA) Legal: George D. McKinney (Mercer County, Ky, student & pvt 9th Ky Cav USA) Legal: John J. Gritton (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer & murder victim)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Salvisa, p. 803-04. 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. "Judge Thomas Edwards (1806-1882)," Find A Grave, Memorial #99947897, accessed August 30, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99947897. KYR-0001-004-0156. KYR-0001-005-0021. KYR-0001-005-0130. KYR-0001-029-0552. Corydon Sackett Abell (Mercer County, Kentucky, physician, Mercer Co Court clerk, State Rep) N00003678 1816-11-06 1903-04-20 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, physician, politician, and court clerk. New York native. Son of Russell Abel and Thankful Hunter Abel. Married to Mary Lock Moore Abell. Father of Mary M. Abell and Thomas Russell Abell. Assistant surgeon in the 3rd United States Dragoons during the U. S. - Mexican War from April 1847 to July 1848. Physician in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Physician in Mercer County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Mercer County from 1859 to 1861. Clerk of the Mercer County Court from 1862 to 1864.

Relationships Economic: Mercer County Court Political: Mercer County Court Political: Thomas Edwards (Mercer County, Kentucky, druggist & judge) Legal: George D. McKinney (Mercer County, Ky, student & pvt 9th Ky Cav USA) Legal: John J. Gritton (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer & murder victim)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, District No. 2, p. 367B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, District No. 2, p. 913. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 6. 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), 303. 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), 306. Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from It's _The Harrodsburg Herald (Harrodsburg, KY), April 23, 1903. Letters Received by the Office of the Adjutant General, Main Series, 1861-1870, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M619, Roll 0003. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 604. Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, vol. 1, part 2 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903), 150. Gertrude B. Darwin and Sarah Hall Johnson, _Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR, vol. 031 (Washington, DC: DAR, 1901) 266. "Dr. Corydon S. Abell (1816-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial #55221621, accessed August 30, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55221621. Mercer County, Kentucky P00000556 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Harrodsburg. Located on the Kentucky River.

Relationships Political: Ephraim J. Polk (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and examiner for Mercer County)

37.7623, -84.8433 "Harrodsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 25, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, “Mercer County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 627. Mercer County Court O00000659 Categories: Organizations

Located in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailer, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Christopher Chinn (1860-1861), Thomas Edwards (1862-1865). Clerk(s): Thomas Allin, Corydon Sackett Abell, and Benjamin C. Allin.

Relationships Legal: James Duddleson (stub, mercer or boyle county)

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. Mercer County, Kentucky 1862-11-05 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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Mercer County Court Nov, 5th 1862 Order:

Sidney S. McFatridge having resigned the office of Sheriff of Mercer CountyIt is ordered that Isaac C. Vanarsdall be and he is hereby appointed by the Mercer County Court to fill the vacancy created by such resignation.

Thos Edwards. P. J. M. C. C.

Copy Attest C. S. Abell Clk Mercer Co. Court,