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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0207 Folder 12

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). 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 L. Shower (Bowling Green, Kentucky, tailor) N00008220 1812? Categories: People

Bowling Green, Kentucky, tailor. Virginia native. Married to Sarah A. Shower. Owner of John L Shower & Co. in Warren County, Kentucky, in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, 2nd District, p. 122A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green, p. 70. U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008, NARA Series M768, Roll 14, Division 4, District 3, Kentucky, June 1865 (accessed via ancestry.com). Paynes Depot, Kentucky P00005406 Categories: Places

Settlement in southern Scott County, Kentucky.

38.142, -84.6236 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 228. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Paynes Depot, Kentucky" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on December 23, 2019). Scott County, Kentucky P001030 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Georgetown, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 Ann Bolton Bevins, "Scott County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1992), 805-06. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Bowling Green, Kentucky P00000560 Categories: Places

Seat of Warren County, Kentucky. Located on the Barren River. Seat of Kentucky's provisional government from November 18, 1861, to February 1862.

36.9685, -86.4808 Ron D. Bryant, “Bowling Green,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 106-107. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Bowling Green, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 21, 2019). Envelope English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": 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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Mrs Ann E. Johnson Near Payne's Depot Scott County Kentucky

His Excellency Gov Johnson Bowling Green Ky

My Friend Mr Shower will hand you this -- Treat him very kindly for my sake

G. W, J