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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0133 Folder 6

Ann Eliza Viley Johnson (Wife of George Washington Johnson) N00008172 1815-04-25 1875-08-08 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Daughter of Willa Viley and Lydia Smith Viley. Married to George Washington Johnson. Mother of 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. Resident in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned twenty-six enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: Willa J. Viley (Scott County, Kentucky, planter) Social: James Streshly Jackson (Christian County, Kentucky attorney, soldier, and politician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 993. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 31-32. Find A Grave, "Ann Eliza (Viley) Johnson (1815-1875) (1815-1875)," Memorial #98984670, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98984670/ann-eliza-johnson (accessed January 3, 2018). Alexander Keene Richards (Scott County, Kentucky, and Carroll Parish, Louisiana, planter, thoroughbred horse breeder, and livestock breeder) N00008241 1827-10-14 1881 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, and Carroll Parish, Louisiana, planter, thoroughbred horse breeder, and livestock breeder. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Graduated from Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky. Resident of Scott County in 1850. Planter in Scott County in 1860. Thoroughbred horse and livestock breeder at Blue Grass Park in Scott County. Owned twenty-nine enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Planter in Carroll Parish in 1860. Inherited the Transylvania plantation, a cotton plantation, in Carroll Parish, from his grandfather William B. Keene. Owned 104 enslaved persons in Carroll Parish in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 2, p. 447B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, Georgetown, District No. 2, p. 13. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 40. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 2, p. 6. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Louisiana, Carroll Parish, District No. 2, p. 84-85. Passport Applications, 1795-1905; Roll #: 81; Volume #: Roll 081 - 27 Jun 1859-04 Aug 1859. "A. Keene Richards: Some of the Incidents in teh Career of One of the Greatest Patrons of the American Turf," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), March 24, 1881, p. 3. Ramage, James A. and Andrea S. Watkins, Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2011), 69-70. _Find A Grave, "Alexander Keene Richards (1827-1881)," Memorial #24843093, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24843093/alexander-keene-richards (accessed January 23, 2018). Robert Paxton Trabue (Mississippi attorney and soldier) N00008242 1824-01-01 1863-02-12 Categories: People

Mississippi attorney and soldier. Columbia, Kentucky, native. Son of Daniel Trabue, Jr. and Mary Paxton Trabue. Married to Hibernia Inge Trabue. Studied law with Judge Zachariah Wheat of Columbia and Thomas B. Monroe, Sr. of Frankfort, Kentucky. Practiced law in Columbia. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Relocated to Mississippi. Practiced law in Mississippi and Louisiana. Colonel of the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Confederate) from September 1861 to February 1863. Commanded the First Kentucky Brigade at the Battle of Shiloh. Died of disease in Richmond, Virginia, on February 12, 1863.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 142-143. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0104. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 267. Edwin Porter Thompson, History of the Orphan Brigade (Louisville: Lewis N. Thompson, 1898), 403-407. Find A Grave, "Robert Paxton Trabue (1824-1863)," Memorial #6270813, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6270813/robert-paxton-trabue (accessed January 23, 2018). William Nelson (U.S. Navy and U.S. Army soldier) N00008225 1824-09-27 1862-09-29 Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, U.S. Navy and U.S. Army soldier. Kentucky native. Attended Norwich Academy in Vermont from 1837 to 1839. Enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman in 1840. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Promoted to lieutenant by 1855. Ordered to recruit in Kentucky by President Abraham Lincoln in 1861, where he established Camp Dick Robinson in Garrard County, Kentucky, as a recruiting center. Promoted to brigadier general on September 16, 1861. Served in the 4th Division of the Army of the Ohio under General Don Carlos Buell. Promoted to major general on July 19, 1862. Commanded the Army of Kentucky. Wounded at the Battle of Richmond in Richmond, Kentucky. Shot by General Jefferson C. Davis at the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky. Died on September 29, 1862.

Relationships Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH)

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988), 343-344. Willa Viley Johnson (Scott Co, KY farmer & soldier (CSA) Son of G W Johnson and Ann E Viley Johnson) N00008203 1837-03-04 1913-05-05 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Scott County native. Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley Johnson. Married to Lilly Tilford Johnson in 1860. Resident of Scott County in 1850. Served in the First Kentucky Brigade (C.S.A.) as aide-de-camp to General John C. Breckinridge in April 1862. Served under General George Crosby and General Frank Armstrong until 1865. Promoted to Major in May 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 2, p. 452A. "Maj. W. V. Johnson," Confederate Veteran, vol. XXII (July 1914), 329. Find A Grave, "Maj. Willa Viley Johnson (1837-1913)," Memorial #84679458, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84679458/willa-viley-johnson (accessed January 2 2018). Arnold [Unknown] (Scott Co, Ky, enslaved by George W. Johnson.) N00008239 1802? Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, resident. Enslaved by George W. Johnson, in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1862.

Relationships Slavery: Madison "Matty" Conyers Johnson (Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley) Slavery: Ann Eliza Viley Johnson (Wife of George Washington Johnson)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 31-32. KYR-0003-092-0133. KYR-0003-092-0150. Willa J. Viley (Scott County, Kentucky, planter) N00008197 1787-02-20 1865-03-28 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, planter. Maryland native. Married to Lydia Smith Viley. Father of Anne Eliza Viley, Warren Viley, Andrew Jackson Viley and Maria Viley. Planter in Scott County, Kentucky in 1850. Owned twenty-five enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Planter in Fayette County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 454. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 30. Find A Grave, "Willa Viley (1787-1865)," Memorial #98984816, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98984816/willa-viley (accessed January 22, 2018). Lydia Smith Viley (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident) N00008243 1794-01-16 1869-06-23 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Married to Willa J. Viley. Mother of Anne Eliza Viley, Warren Viley, Andrew Jackson Viley and Maria Viley. Resident of Scott County, Kentucky, in 1850. Lived in household that owned twenty-five enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Resident of Fayette County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 454. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 30. Find A Grave, "Lydia Smith Viley (1794-1869)," Memorial #98984794, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98984794/lydia-viley (accessed January 22, 2018). Euclid L. Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident) N00008217 1856? Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, resident. Scott County native. Son of George W. Johnson and Ann Viley Johnson. Resident of Scott County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: Henry Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident) Familial: Junius Ward Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident and cadet) Familial: Martha Lydia Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 115. Lowell H. Harrison, “George W. Johnson (1861-1862)” in Lowell H. Harrison, Ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 82-84. Henry Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident) N00008216 1853? Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, resident. Scott County native. Son of George W. Johnson and Ann Viley Johnson. Resident of Scott County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: Junius Ward Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident and cadet) Familial: Martha Lydia Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 115. Lowell H. Harrison, “George W. Johnson (1861-1862)” in Lowell H. Harrison, Ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 82-84. Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge (Lexington, Kentucky, resident) N00008221 1826-08-18 1907-10-08 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, resident. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Married to John Cabell Breckinridge on December 12, 1843. Mother of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Frances Breckinridge, John Milton Breckinridge, John Witherspoon Breckinridge, and Mary Desha Breckinridge. Resident of Lexington in 1850 and 1860. Exiled in Canada in 1865.

Relationships Social: Ann Eliza Viley Johnson (Wife of George Washington Johnson)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 189B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, 4th Ward, Lexington, p. 108. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, 2nd Ward, Lexington, p. 105. James C. Klotter, The Breckinridges of Kentucky, 1760-1981 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986), 102, 123-124. Find A Grave, "Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge (1826-1907)," Memorial #8872592, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8872592/mary-cyrene-breckinridge (accessed January 17, 2018). John Cabell Breckinridge (Senator, former U.S. Vice President, & Confederate General) N001789 1821-01-16 1875-05-17 Categories: People

Kentucky attorney, soldier, and politician. Attended Pisgah Academy and graduated from Centre College in 1838. Attended Princeton University and studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1838. Practiced law in Lexington. Married to Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge. Father of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Frances Breckinridge Steele, John Milton Breckinridge, John Witherspoon Breckinridge, and Mary Desha Breckinridge Maltby. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Infantry as a major during the Mexican War. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1849. Democratic party member from the Eighth Congressional District of Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855. Vice president of the United States under James Buchanan from 1856 to 1860. Ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States as a Southern Democrat in 1860. Democratic party member of the United States Senate from March 1861 to December 1861. Expelled from the Senate in December 1861. Served in the Confederate Army as a brigadier general and major general from 1861 to 1865. Secretary of war for the Confederate States of America from January 1865 to April 1865. Fled to Cuba after the war and took up residence in Europe.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, 4th Ward City of Lexington, p. 108. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, s.v. “Breckinridge, John Cabell,” (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000789) (accessed January 10, 2017). Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 55-56. James C. Kotter, The Breckinridges of Kentucky 1760-1981 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986), 95-136. “John C. Breckinridge,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), May 18, 1875. “Breckinridge, John Cabell,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 117-118. Find A Grave, “John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875)," Memorial #132, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132/john-cabell-breckinridge (accessed January 10, 2017). Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (Fayette County, Kentucky, soldier) N00008363 1835? Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, soldier. Son of John C. Breckinridge and Mary C. Burch Breckinridge. Resident of Fayette County in 1850 and 1860. Private and corporal in the 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (Confederate).

Relationships Familial: Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge (Lexington, Kentucky, resident) Military: Madison "Matty" Conyers Johnson (Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley)

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0080. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 378. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, 4th Ward City of Lexington, p. 108. James C. Kotter, The Breckinridges of Kentucky 1760-1981 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986), 102. 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). 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) Georgetown, Kentucky P001838 Categories: Places

Seat of Scott County, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 “Georgetown,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 371. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 1862-04-16 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 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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157 April 16th 1862 My Dear Mother

I suppose before now that you all have heard of dear father death and the manner in which he was killed in the late battle. I went with Captain Keene Richards on the sunday after the fight with a flag of truce to learn what we could in regard to what they had done with him. I saw Gen Nelsen of Ky and he told us that my father was taken on monday morning wounded. At the time he was wounded he was fighting in Col Tribue's regiment on foot, his horse having been shot as I have learned the day before. O mother what an untarnish name he has left behind him and what a legesy to his family and to his children.

Gen Nelson told us that father suffered from his wounds none whatever and he died on thenthe 9th and that his remains would be sent to you in Ky. I start this evening to brother Willa with fathers things which he had left with Arnold.

Brother Willa and all of our friends of Old Town and Lake Washington are well when I last heard from them.

Dear Mother I know you will excuse bad writing and my short letter, as you know to tell you that I am well is about all that I can write these times since I can not write what I would like to. Give my love to Grand-pa and Grand-Ma and all my relations -- Kiss brother Euclid and Henry for me -- Tell Cousin Mary the General and Cable are both well. With the hope that I may see you all again I am your affectionate son

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158 Mrs Ann E Johnson

Georgetown Ky