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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Enrolled Militia Records 1864 - 1865 ; Adair, Allen, Boyle, Daviess, Garrard, Owen, Pendleton, and Shelby counties KYR-0002-079-0011 Flat Box 7, Folder 861 MARION COUNTY Home Guards - Organized 1st Ky Militia

Haysville, Marion County, Kentucky Robert A. Burton (Marion County, Kentucky, farmer, state representative, and county judge) N00009961 1834-06-11 1899-02-16 Categories: People

Marion County, Kentucky, farmer, judge, and politician. Kentucky native. Son of John A. Burton and Lucinda Burton. Married to Margaret Burton. Student in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1850. Merchant in Boyle County in 1850. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Marion County from 1859 to 1861. Farmer in Marion County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Marion County in 1860. County judge of Marion County Court in 1861. County judge of Marion County Court in 1862.

Relationships Legal: Marion County Court Social: William C. Jarboe (Washington County, KY, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 322A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 552-553. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 2, p. 701. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 2, p. 494B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, p. 8. "Judge Robert Allen Burton (1834-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial #113662418, accessed December 23, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113662418. “Sudden Death: Of Judge Robert A. Burton, of Marion County,” The Twice-A-Week Messenger, February 18, 1899. KYR-0001-004-1380. KYR-0002-079-0011. Alson Rawlings (Marion County, Kentucky, farmer & commander of Marion Co home guard) N00013545 1822-05-13 1899-12-17 Categories: People

Marion County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Mariah Rawlings. Father of Lewis Crittenden Rawlings, John Rawlings, and Clement H. Rawlings. Farmer in Marion County in 1860. Served in the Marion County Home Guard as the commander beginning in 1861.

Relationships Political: Military Board of Kentucky Military: Military Board of Kentucky Military: Marion County Home Guard

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 2, p. 686. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Haysville, p. 21A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Marion County, KY, 4th Congressional District, n.d., p. 160 (accessed via ancestry.com). Find A Grave, "Col Alson Rawlings (1822-1899)," Memorial #77809010, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77809010 (accessed September 29, 2020). Haysville, Kentucky P00010541 Categories: Places

Settlement in Marion County, Kentucky.

37.9034, -86.2425 "Haysville," History of Marion County, Kentucky, Vol 1, (New Hope, Kentucky: St. Martin de Porres Lay Dominican Community, 2001), p. 56. Find A Grave, "Haysville Cemetery," https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/184349/haysville-cemetery (accessed February 27, 2020). Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection: Kentucky Place Names, “Marion County Place Names,” Morehead State University, https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/rennickmscollection/ (accessed October 5, 2020). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Haysville, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on October 5, 2020). Marion County, Kentucky P00002413 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Lebanon.

37.5698, -85.2527 "Lebanon, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 30, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, "Marion County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 608-09. 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). Military Board of Kentucky O00006066 1861-05-24 1862-08-28 Categories: Organizations

Agency of the Executive Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky responsible for state military affairs from May 1861 to August 1862. The board existed in three different iterations and with different members. Member(s) from May 24, 1861, to September 25, 1861: Beriah Magoffin (President), Samuel Gill, George T. Wood, Peter Dudley, and John B. Peyton. Phillip Swigert was secretary in June 1861. Member(s) from September 25, 1861, to March 15, 1862: John B. Temple (President), Peter Dudley, Samuel Gill, George T. Wood, and E. H. Taylor. Member(s) from March 15, 1862, to August 28, 1862: John B. Temple and George T. Wood.

Relationships Military: Frederick Henry Skinner (Lyon County, Kentucky, hotel keeper, attorney, and judge.) Political: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Political: Mercer County Home Guard Military: Thomas Noble Lindsey (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and paymaster general) Military: William Benton Nevitt (Larue County, Kentucky, attorney) Military: Ebenezer C. Guest (Butler County, Kentucky, merchant and postmaster) Military: John Harrison Brown (Allen County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: William E. Williams (Cumberland County, Kentucky, machinist and miller) Military: John T. Rogers (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: John P. Monroe (Monroe County, Kentucky, miller and merchant) Military: John W. Walker (Simpson County, Kentucky, solider (U.S.A.)) Military: James W. Tandy (Carroll County, Kentucky, Farmer) Military: George W. Sanders (Gallatin County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: James H. Smith (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: Joseph H. Glover (Barren County, Kentucky, millwright) Military: Benjamin F. Wash (Anderson County, Kentucky, teacher, pvt 54th KY Inf USA) Military: Daniel W. Lovell (Laurel County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: John T. Sanders (Wayne County, Kentucky, banker. ) Military: Cornelius F. Campbell (Pulaski County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: Thomas W. Price (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: Sanders Dewees Bruce (Fayette County, KY, china merchant, county court clerk, col 20th Ky Inf, commander 22nd Brig Army of Cumb USA) Military: John L. Davidson (Todd County, Kentucky, contractor) Military: Marion Cartright Taylor (Shelby County, Ky, attorney; capt & colonel 15th KY Inf USA) Military: John Cochran (Spencer County, KY, farmer) Military: John Jefferson Wylie (Caldwell County, Kentucky, saddler) Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: Robert Cochran (Spencer County, KY, farmer, surveyor, state Rep) Military: John Tecumseh Milam (Franklin Co, Ky, merchant and pvt 22nd KY Inf USA) Military: Squire Lucas (Grant County, KY, merchant, postmaster, andsheriff) Military: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. "An Act for the regulation of the militia and to provide for the arming of the State," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 4-6. "An Act to dispense with the Military Board," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: John B. Major, Public Printer, 1862), 260. KYR-0002-022-0104. Marion County Home Guard O00013544 1861 Categories: Organizations

State militia organization from Marion County, Kentucky. Organized in Haysville, Kentucky. Commander(s): Alson Rawlings.

Relationships Military: Military Board of Kentucky Political: Military Board of Kentucky

Report of the Military Board of Kentucky, made to the General Assembly, September 10, 1861 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 7. KYR-0002-079-0011. Haysville, Marion County, Kentucky 1861-06-20 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Haysville Marion County KyJune the 20th 1861

to the Military Bord we have organised a company Knowen as the Home Guard & have Bin Sworn in & I wish to knowe of you what Proof you wish and to Knowe if you have the arms on hands at Present fiff Knot when we can obtain the guns acording to the Late act of the Legislator Ower County Judge is a young officer having Bin Resently Elected and Request me as the commandent of the company to get an answer from you me company is very anctius to get thar arms & we ar Ready to comply with the Requsitions of the Lawe in the case so Please answer me at your Earliest convenience So that I ma knowe when we can obtain the arms Direct your answer to Haysville Marion County Ky

yours truly with Respect in hast Alson Rawlings

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5 A. Rawlings Home Guard Marion Co Recd & ans 28 June 1861.