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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0114 Folder 4

Lexington, Fayette 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. William Henry Johnson (Warren County, Mississippi, planter and brother of George Washington Johnson) N00008196 1813-06-13 1872-12-28 Categories: People

Warren County, Mississippi, planter. Scott County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Johnson and Elizabeth "Betsy" Payne Johnson. Married to Mary B. Johnson. Father of William H. Johnson. Married to Lucy A. Johnson. Owner of Belle Isle, a cotton plantation, in Warren County, Mississippi. Planter in Warren County in 1850 and 1860. Owned seventy-seven enslaved persons in 1850 and ninety-three in 1860. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Relationships Legal: Junius R. Ward (Washington County, Mississippi, and Scott County, Kentucky, planter and livestock breeder)

"Death of a Kentuckian, *Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 3, 1873, p. 1. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Warren County, p. 239A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Mississippi, Warren County. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Warren County, p. 134. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Mississippi, Warren County, p. 257A-257B. Smith, Myron J., Jr., The Fight for the Yazoo, August 1862-July 1864: Swamps, Forts and Fleets on Vicksburg's Northern Flank (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2012), 91. Find A Grave, "William Henry Johnson (1813-1872)," Memorial #98878640, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98878640/william-henry-johnson (accessed January 3, 2018). Junius R. Ward (Washington County, Mississippi, and Scott County, Kentucky, planter and livestock breeder) N00008185 1802 1883-08 Categories: People

Washington County, Mississippi, and Scott County, Kentucky, planter and livestock breeder. Scott County native. Son of William Ward and Sarah Johnson Ward. Married to Matilda Viley Ward. Father of George Ward, Elizabeth Ward, Sarah Ward, Mary Ward, Junius R. Ward, and Matilda Ward. Admitted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1820. Planter in Washington County and Scott County in 1850 and 1860. Owned 107 enslaved persons in Washington County in 1850.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 2. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Mississippi, Washington County, District No. 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), [Population/Slave] Schedules, [State], [County], [City/District], p. X. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Washington County, District No. 1, p. 109. Davis, John H., The American Turf: History of the Thoroughbred, Together with Personal Reminiscences by the Author, Who, in Turn, Has Been Jockey, Trainer and Owner (New York: The John Polhemus Printing Company, 1907), 139. William Ward, List of Cadets Admitted into the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., From its Origin till September 1, 1886, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1887), 65. Franklin L. Riley, ed., _Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society (University, Mississippi: Mississippi Historical Society, 1914), 271. Find A Grave, "Junius R. Ward (1802-1883)," Memorial #97066606, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97066606/junius-r.-ward (accessed January 5, 2018). Farmer Dewees (Lexington, Kentucky, teller and banker) N00008184 1795-10-15 1869-07-28 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, bank teller and gentleman. Woodford County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Dewees and Mary Coburn Dewees. Teller at the old branch of the United States Bank in Lexington. Teller at the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Lexington. Gentleman in Lexington in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 116. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 59. Mrs. Philip E. LaMunyan, The Dewees Family: Genealogical Data, Biographical Facts and Historical Information (Norristown, PA: William H. Roberts, 1905), 105-06. George W. Ranck, History of Lexington Kentucky: Its Early Annals and Recent Progress (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1872), 402-03. Find A Grave, "Farmer Dewees (1795-1869)," Memorial #99746794, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99746794/farmer-dewees (accessed January 5, 2018). Lexington, Kentucky P001002 Categories: Places

Seat of Fayette County, Kentucky.

38.0406, -84.5037 John D. Wright, "Lexington (City)," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 549-51. "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1861-09-12 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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Lexington Sept 12 1861 Geo W Johnson Esqr Dr Sir

A note signed W H Johnson. Junius R Ward & Yourself for $1.500 became due on th 3/24 Aug & not being paid I would ask your attention

very respy

F. Dewees

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Sept 12. 1861 F. Dewees Lexington