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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0094 Folder 4

Phillips County, Arkansas George Washington Johnson (Provisional Governor of Kentucky) N001002 1811-05-27 1862-04-08 Categories: People

First governor of the provisional Confederate government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Son of William Johnson and Betsy Payne Johnson. Married to Ann Viley Johnson on August 20, 1833. Father of Eliza Woolfolk Johnson, Willa Viley Johnson, Madison Conyers Johnson, Martha Lydia Johnson, Junius Ward Johnson, Warren Viley Johnson, Henry Viley Johnson, and Euclid Lane Johnson. Educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Practiced law in Georgetown, Kentucky. Planter in Scott County, Kentucky, and Helena, Arkansas. Member of the Democratic Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County from 1838 to 1840. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Member of the Southern Rights Party. First provisional Confederate governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from November 20, 1861, to April 8, 1862. Served as an aide to Confederate General John C. Breckinridge. Served in the 4th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from April 6, 1862 to April 8, 1862. Died on April 8, 1862 from wounds sustained at the Battle of Shiloh.

Relationships Social: William P. Adcock (Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, p. 612. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, pp. 228A-B. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 168-69. Lowell H. Harrison, "Johnson, George, W." in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 473. Lowell H. Harrison, “George W. Johnson (1861-1862)” in Lowell H. Harrison, Ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 82-84. Jon L. Wakelyn, Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971, 255. John H. Yerby (Phillips County, Arkansas, farmer and soldier ) N00008147 1836? Categories: People

Phillips County, Arkansas, farmer and soldier. Arkansas native. First lieutenant in the First Arkansas Cavalry. Aide-de-camp to Colonel Archibald Dobbins. Prisoner of war from April 1864 to June 1865.

Relationships Social: Willa Viley Johnson (Son of George W. Johnson) Social: Josiah Stoddard Johnston (Scott Co, KY, maj, asst AG of Confederal Bragg, staff of Buckner, nephew of Confederal Albert Sidney Johnston, son-in-law of KY Provi Gov GW Johnson) Economic: John Watt & Co.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Arkansas, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M317, Roll 0001. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Arkansas, Phillips County, Searcy Township, Old Town post office, p. 52. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series I- Volume XXXIV- Part III- Correspondence, Etc. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1891), 562-3. (accessed https://books.google.com/books?id=pL1ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA562&dq=%22J.h.+yerby%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDvOfVxL3VAhXCQiYKHUuZDMQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=yerby&f=false). The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series II- Volume VIII (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1899), 177. (accessed https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwMVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA177&dq="J.h.+yerby"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDvOfVxL3VAhXCQiYKHUuZDMQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=yerby&f=false) Old Town Ridge, Arkansas P00008146 Categories: Places

Located in Phillips County, Arkansas.

35.9409, -90.3187 "Johnston et al. v. Turner, Adm'r," in John M. Moore, Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas, Containing Cases Decided at the November Term 1874. Vol. XXIX (Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1876), 280-293. (accessed https://books.google.com/books?id=oERIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA283&dq=OLD+TOWN+RIDGE+PHILLIPS+COUNTY+ARKANSAS&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4zIXVyb3VAhUCKCYKHdrsAUEQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=old%20ridge&f=false) 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). Phillips County, Arkansas 1861-04-13 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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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Oldtown Ridge

Apl 13th 1861 Geor W. Johnson Esq Dr Sir

I regreted very much that the Bill of exchange went to protest, In fact felt so bad about it, I would not come to see you whilest in Kentucky in regard to the deeds of the lands traded, but will arrange it early next Fall by shiping enough of my first cotton to some other house, to satisfy both amounts that is due,

Yours Respectfully John H. Yerby

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John H. Yerby (Ark) April 13. 1861.

Letter of John Yerby --