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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0134 Folder 6

Franklin 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. George Hunt (Scott County, Kentucky, and Chistian County, Kentucky, baptist minister) N00008246 1831-06-09 1893-08-28 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, and Chistian County, Kentucky, baptist minister and college president. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Baptized at East Hickman Baptist Church in Fayette County in 1844. Graduated from Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1849. Ordained pastor of Maysville Baptist Church in Maysville, Kentucky, church in 1856. Pastor of Maysville Baptist Church from 1856 to 1858. Chair of the Theology Department at Georgetown College in Georgetown from 1858 to 1861. Pastor at Stamping Ground Baptist Church in Scott County from 1858 to 1862. President of Bethel College in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, from 1862 to 1864. Pastor of Bethel Baptist Church and Salem Baptist Church in Christian County.

Spencer, John H., A History of Kentucky Baptists. From 1769 to 1885, Including More than 800 Biographical Ketches. Volume 1 (Printed for the Author, 1886), 739-40. Find A Grave, "Rev George Hunt (1831-1893)," Memorial #60413346, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60413346/george-hunt (accessed January 23, 2018). Cadwallader Lewis (Franklin County, Kentucky, baptist minister) N00008245 1811-11-06 1882-04-20 Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, baptist minister. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth H. Lewis. Father of William J. Lewism John A. Lewis, Waller H. Lewis, Mary P. Lewis, and Charles C. Lewis. Baptist minister in Franklin County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Ann Eliza Viley Johnson (Wife of George Washington Johnson) Social: George Hunt (Scott County, Kentucky, and Chistian County, Kentucky, baptist minister) Social: John Bolivar McGinn (Versailles, Kentucky, minister) Social: Paul Rankins (Georgetown, Kentucky, physician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 4. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 1, p. 2. Find A Grave, "Rev Cadwallader Lewis (1811-1882)," Memorial #73678702, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73678702/cadwallader-lewis (accessed January 23, 2018). 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) N00008200 1833-02-10 1913-10-04 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer, soldier, and attorney. New Orleans, Louisiana, native. Son of John Harris Johnston and Eliza Ellen Davidson Johnston. Married to Eliza W. Johnson Johnston on June 13, 1854. Father of George W. Johnston and Mary H. Johnston. Educated at the Latin school of S.V. Womack in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Educated at the Western Military Institute in Georgetown. Graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1853. Graduated from the Law School of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1854. Cotton planter in Arkansas from 1855 to 1859. Farmer in Scott County, Kentucky, from 1859 to 1862. Owned four enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Served on the personal staff of General Braxton Bragg as major and assistant adjutant-general from 1862 to June 1863. Served on the staff of General Simon B. Buckner. Served as chief of staff for General John C. Breckinridge with the ranks of major and lieutenant colonel from December 1863 to May 1865. Relocated to Helena, Arkansas, practicing law there from 1865 to 1867.

Relationships Social: John Bolivar McGinn (Versailles, Kentucky, minister) Social: Paul Rankins (Georgetown, Kentucky, physician) Social: Alvin Duvall (Scott County, Kentucky, court of appeals judge) Social: Junius R. Ward (Washington County, Mississippi, and Scott County, Kentucky, planter and livestock breeder) Social: Cadwallader Lewis (Franklin County, Kentucky, baptist minister) Familial: Ann Eliza Viley Johnson (Wife of George Washington Johnson) Familial: Albert Sidney Johnston (Commander Dept of Pacific, US Army and general & commander western dept CSA) Familial: Eliza Woolfolk Johnson Johnston (Daughter of George Washington Johnson)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 175B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 969. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 226A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 116A. "Death Claims Kentuckian: J. Stoddard Johnston Dies Near St. Louis," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), October 5, 1913, 1. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 754-56. Paul Rankins (Georgetown, Kentucky, physician) N00008231 1823-04-07 1872-12-14 Categories: People

Georgetown, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Married to Malvina Burch Rankins. Father of Rhodes B. Rankins, William H. Rankins, Bettie Rankins, and Malvina Rankins. Physician in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1850. Physician in Georgetown in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 399A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, Georgetown, District 1, p. 127. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, Georgetown, p. 21. Find A Grave, "Dr Paul Rankins (1823-1872)," Memorial #104195186, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104195186/paul-rankins (accessed January 22, 2018). John Bolivar McGinn (Versailles, Kentucky, minister) N00008232 1826-02-27 1902-11-25 Categories: People

Versailles, Kentucky, minister. Minister of the Christian Church in Versailles in 1862.

KYR-0003-092-0131. KYR-0003-092-0134. Find A Grave, "John Bolivar McGinn (1826-1902)," Memorial #88947150, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88947150 (accessed January 22, 2018). Franklin County, Kentucky P001019 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Frankfort. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, "Franklin County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 354-56. 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/. Franklin County, Kentucky 1862-04-17 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Franklin Co April 17th 62 My Dear Sir

I have received your note in relation to the funeral of my esteemed friend Mr G W Johnson and am very sorry that it finds me in such a condition that it is impossible for me to speak. I got wet some days since in returning from Lexington & have been in consequence suffering with an affection of my throat, to which I am subject, & have been almost unable to make myself understood untill yesterday & then attempting to read for a few moments at a prayer meeting I became so hoarse as to be scarcely able to speak atall. I Know that were I to attempt it I should break down & perhaps produce permanent disease of my throat. It will give me a mournful satisfaction to go to the burial if the weather permits, but you will have to get some other speaker

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I have been this morning informed that the Pastor of Georgetown Church told a minister a short time since who sympathizes with the South that the Church would not permit him to ask that Minister unto his pulpit & I very much fear that you will be denied the use of the house. I hope however for the sake of humanity & the good name of Christianity that no objection may be made. I will go or send to see Mr George Hunt this evening & get him to attend & I have no doubt he will take pleasure in officiating shd you wish it.

Please say to Mrs Johnson that she has my heartfelt sympathy. I know that no earthly consolation can reach her sorrow & I wd not mock her with their offer. But I trust she has an interest with him who has said he is a husband to the widow.

May God protect her noble boys who are battling for their homes.

very truly yrs

C Lewis

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Mr J Stoddard Johnston Present

It will not do to rely on the uncertainty of George Hunt's acting, especially from the feeling which prevails in his church. averse to it.

I shall immediately write to Dr Rankin to see Mr Maginn the Pastor of the Reformed Church. I know he will take pleasure in officiating

J. J. S J.