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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0097 Folder 4

Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky 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. Charles Thruston Churchill (Jefferson and Logan co farmer, maybe member of firm of Thomas & Churchill with Samuel B. Thomas) N00008150 1826-01-10 1865-03-18 Categories: People

Jefferson and Logan counties, Kentucky, farmer. Louisville, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Churchill and Abigail Pope Oldham Churchill. Married to Susan Churchill Payne Churchill in Hardin County on March 21, 1850. Father of Henry Churchill, Hampden L. Churchill, Samuel T. Churchill, and Charles T. Churchill. Farmer in Jefferson County in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1850. Farmer in Logan County in 1860. Employed H. N. McKinney, George Legrand, John Legrand, and Washington Legrand as farm labor in Logan County in 1860. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Logan County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 306B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 954 (p. 3 of microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 2, p. 541. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 2, 391B (p. 8 of microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Elizabethtown, p. 325A. Find A Grave, "Charles Worden Thruston Churchill (1826-1865)," Memorial 74609374, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74609374 (accessed January 2, 2020). Find A Grave, "Susan Churchill Payne Churchill (1829-1875)," Memorial 74609410, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74609410 (accessed January 2, 2020). Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hardin County Marriages, Film #000390788, p. 291 of microfilm. Kathleen Jennings, Louisville’s First Families: A Series of Genealogical Sketches, Louisville, Kentucky: 1920, reproduced on http://www.kygenweb.net/history/ff_louisville/c5.htm, accessed January 3, 2020. Elizabethtown, Kentucky P00002906 Categories: Places

Seat of Hardin County, Kentucky.

37.7031, -85.8649 “Elizabethtown,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 290. "Elizabethtown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed January 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 90-91. Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky 1861-05-21 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Elizabethtown May 21st/61 George W Johnson Esqr Dear sir

I just arrived from the South yesterday and found a letter hear from you

I am very sorry to say that I made no collections was disappointed in every quarter

Just as soon as I can collect I will hand it over to you but am unable to say when it will be I am sorry things have happened so that we could not meet our notes

Yours Very Respectfully

C. T. Churchill

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C. T. Churchill May 21. 1861.

C. T. Churchill