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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-0001-031-0089 R1-134

Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky Pleasant M. Savage (Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and presiding judge) N00015342 1789? Categories: People

Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and judge. Virginia native. Married to Susannah Swingle Savage in Lewis County, Kentucky, on December 5, 1812. Father of George Swingle Savage and Harriet Savage. Married to Sarah A. Moore Savage. Father of Mary Moore Savage, Sam Savage, Alfred Savage, Franklin "Francis" M. Savage, and Sarah Savage. Resident of Lewis County in 1820. Owned seventy-five enslaved persons in Lewis County in 1820. Resident of Lewis County in 1830. Owned three enslaved persons in Lewis County in 1830. Postmaster of Rock Port in Lewis County from January 2, 1833, to September 15, 1837. Resident of Greenup County, Kentucky, in 1840. Owned five enslaved persons in Greenup County in 1840. Farmer in Lewis County in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Lewis County in 1850. Merchant in Lawrence County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Lawrence County in 1860. Presiding judge of the Lawrence County Court from 1862 to 1863.

Relationships Political: Lawrence County Court Political: John S. Thompson (Lawrence County, Ky, farmer; 2nd lieut.14th Ky Inf USA) Political: William Jefferson Pigg (Lawrence County, Kentucky, resident and farmer.) Political: William J. Pennington (Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer, soldier, and justice of the peace.) Political: George Buchanan (Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer, postmaster, and justice of the peace.) Political: Greenvill Kinner (Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer.) Political: Henry Diamond (Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer.) Political: Oliver D. Botner (Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier.) Political: William Hays (Lawrence County, Kentucky, famer.) Political: Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: George Bernard Poage (Lawrence County, Kentucky, merchant, minister, and deputy court clerk) Political: Richard F. Vinson (Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer and county court clerk)

Fourth Manuscript Census of the United States (1820), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, Elksburg p. 358-59. Fifth Manuscript Census of the United States (1830), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, p. 297. Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, p. 225. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, District 2, p. 174B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 659. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 333A. 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), 304. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 10489. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lewis County Marriages, Film 000344051. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Lewis County, Kentucky, vol. 12A, p. 368. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, Savage, National 12113, State 138. Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) N00000825 1829-01-13 1892-11-09 Categories: People

Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier. Cabell County, Virginia, native. Son of Frederick William Moore. Married to Sarah A. Everett Moore on January 15, 1850. Father of Felicia E. Moore, Mary F. Moore, S. G. Moore, Minnie H. Moore, and Druzilla Moore. Attended Marshall Academy in Virginia. Graduate of Marietta College in Washington County, Ohio. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1849. Member of the Whig Party and Democratic Party. Attorney in Lawrence County in 1850. Member of the United States House of Representative from the Ninth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. Member of the Opposition Party. Attorney in Lawrence County in 1860. Served in the 14th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a colonel from November 1861 to January 1862.

Relationships Legal: Lawrence Circuit Court Political: Richard Scott, Sr. (Catlettsburg, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Elba Ulin (Catlettsburg, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Richard Taylor Jacob (Oldham Co, KY, Col of 9th Cav, Lt. Gov of KY, 1863-1867) Military: Gaylord McFall (Richland County, Ohio, merchant and soldier) Military: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Military: Samuel Orr (Delaware County, IN, farmer and soldier) Military: Thomas McKinster (Lawrence County, KY, farmer and soldier) Economic: Boyd Circuit Court Legal: James L. Turman (Boyd County, Kentucky, farmer and tavern keeper and farmer) Economic: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Economic: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Jackson H. Jacobs (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer and captain 14th Cav USA & 1st lt Cap Guards) Military: 14th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 75B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 186. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 333B. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Upper Catlettsburg Precinct 6, p. 213A. E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry, and Modern Activities, Vol. 3 (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), p. 1562-1564. “Moore, Laban Theodore,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000907. Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 350. “Col. Laban T. Moore Dead,” Mt. Sterling Advocate (Mount Sterling, Ky.), November 15, 1892. “Laban Theodore Moore (1829-1892),” Find A Grave, Memorial 7773434, accessed December 20, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7773434. Richard F. Vinson (Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer and county court clerk) N00015340 1838 1910 Categories: People

Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer and court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of William Vinson and Jane Vinson. Married to Georgeanne Randall Vinson. Father of Victoria Vinson and Jane L. Vinson. Student in Wayne County, Virginia, in 1850. Farmer in Lawrence County, Kentucky, in 1860. Clerk of Lawrence County Court in Lawrence County from 1862 to 1865.

Relationships Political: Pleasant M. Savage (Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and presiding judge) Political: Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) Political: Lawrence County Court Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: George Bernard Poage (Lawrence County, Kentucky, merchant, minister, and deputy court clerk)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Virginia, Wayne County, District 66, p. 266B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 620. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 282B. 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), 302. 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), 12. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #8830. "Richard Fletcher Vinson (1838-1910)," Find A Grave, Memorial #133184825, accessed August 13, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133184825. George Bernard Poage (Lawrence County, Kentucky, merchant, minister, and deputy court clerk) N00015341 1823-01-18 1902-04-12 Categories: People

Lawrence County, Kentucky, merchant, minister, and deputy court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of William Poage and Eliza Van Horn Poage. Married to Lucy Jane Hubanks Poage in July 1846. Father of George B. Poage, Henry H. Poage, and James E. Poage. Merchant in Lawrence County, Kentucky, in 1850. Minister for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Lawrence County in 1860. Deputy court clerk in Lawrence County in 1862.

Relationships Political: Richard F. Vinson (Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer and county court clerk) Political: Pleasant M. Savage (Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and presiding judge) Political: Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) Political: Lawrence County Court Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 86A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 654. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Brooksville, p. 334A. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, Ky, Poage, National #51746, State #712. KYR-0001-031-0089. Louisa, Kentucky P00000553 Categories: Places

Seat of Lawrence County, Kentucky. Located on the Big Sandy River.

38.1143, -82.6032 George Wolfford, “Louisa,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 574. "Louisa, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 22, 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). Lawrence County, Kentucky P00000552 Categories: Places

County in northeast Kentucky. Seat at Louisa. Located on the Big Sandy River.

38.1143, -82.6032 George Wolfford, “Lawrence County” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 537. "Louisa, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 22, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky 1862-12-21 Correspondence 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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LouisaKy Decr. 21st 1862. Dear Sir,

Some time since I wrote you in reference to the failure of the commissions of the Presiding Judge of this County & Justices to await here in responce to which you informed me that the commissions had been forwarded the 21st of August. I then wrote that they had not reached here but have had nothing since. Up to this date the Commission have not come you will pleese forward them or Duplicates and mail them to Col.L T Moore by request of some of those interested.

Respectfully yours, R F Vinson clk. pr. G B Poage Dpy