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  • Thompson, Jesse
    Person
    Thompson, Jesse

    Election judge for Precinct No. 1 in Livingston County alongside P.H. Conant.

  • Carson, Milton H.
    Person
    Carson, Milton H.
    b. 1807-06-20 d. 1886-12-09

    Livingston County, Kentucky, physician. Texas native. Married to Louisa B. Carson. Physician in Livingston County in 1860.

  • Wickliffe, Charles Anderson
    Person
    Wickliffe, Charles Anderson
    b. 1788-06-08 d. 1869-10-31

    Kentucky attorney and politician. Educated at preparatory schools. Admitted to the bar in 1809. Attorney in Bardstown, Kentucky. Married to Margaret Crepps Wickliffe. Father of Elizabeth B Wickliffe Kinkead, Mary Wickliffe Merrick, Robert Charles Wickliffe, Margaret Wickliffe Holt, Nancy Christian Wickliffe Yulee, and Julia Wickliffe Beckham. Aide to General Joseph Winlock and aide to General Samuel Caldwell in the War of 1812. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1812 to 1813. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1822, 1823, and from 1833 to 1835. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1834. Served the Fifth Congressional District of Kentucky as a Jackson Republican member of the House of Representatives of the United States from 1823 to 1824 and as a Jacksonian from 1825 to 1832. Served the Fifth Congressional District of Kentucky as a Unionist member of the House of Representatives of the United States from 1861 to 1863. Lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1836 to 1839. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1839 to 1840. United States Postmaster General from 1841 to 1845. Special agent to the Republic of Texas under U.S. President James K. Polk in 1845. Member of the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention. Member of the peace conference held in Washington, D.C. in 1861. Unsuccessfully campaigned as a Kentucky Peace Democrat for governor in 1863 against Thomas E. Bramlette. Delegate to the 1864 Democratic National Convention.

  • Hodge, James Campbell, Sr.
    Person
    Hodge, James Campbell, Sr.
    b. 1843-11-04 d. 1906-11-14

    Livingston County, Kentucky, attorney. Married to Julia Hodge. Father of James Campbell Hodge and Robert Scantland Hodge. Attorney in Livingston County in 1860.

  • Richardson, J. W.
    Person
    Richardson, J. W.
    b. 1821?

    Livingston County, Kentucky, blacksmith. Kentucky native. Blacksmith in Livingston County in 1860.

  • Cade, James W.
    Person
    Cade, James W.
    b. 1820-01-18 d. 1904-11-17

    Livingston County, Kentucky, circuit and county clerk. Married to Helen Mary Miles Cade. Father of Richard W. Cade, Ida Cade Davis, and Lora Cade Webb. Clerk in Livingston Circuit Court in Livingston County from 1855 to 1866. Clerk in Livingston County Court in Livingston County from 1859 to 1865. Owned three enslaved persons in 1860.

  • Boyd, R. S.
    Person
    Boyd, R. S.
    b. 1816?

    Livingston County, Kentucky, farmer. Married to Sarah Lucinda Crawford on March 23, 1837. Farmer in Livingston County, Kentucky in 1860.

  • Canada, W.
    Person
    Canada, W.

    Appears in the indictment of the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. P. H. Conant and Jesse Thompson in Livingston County, Kentucky.

  • Trimble, Lawrence Strother
    Person
    Trimble, Lawrence Strother
    b. 1826-08-26 d. 1904-08-09

    Paducah, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Trimble and Harriet Tripplet Trimble. Admitted to the bar in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1844. Practiced law in Paducah after 1847. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Paducah from 1851 to 1852. Circuit Judge of the First Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1859. Elector on the Democratic Party ticket of Stephen A. Douglas in 1860. President of the Ohio and New Orleans Railroad Company from 1860 to 1865. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the First Congressional District of Kentucky from March 4, 1865 to March 3, 1871.

  • Haynes, Chesley
    Person
    Haynes, Chesley
    b. 1829?

    Smithland, Kentucky, town marshal. Mississippi native. Town marshal in Smithland in 1860.

  • Cowgill, [unknown]
    Person
    Cowgill, [unknown]

    Candidate for Representative to U.S. Congress.

  • Bigham, Newton Harvey
    Person
    Bigham, Newton Harvey
    b. 1831-10-03 d. 1913

    Smithland, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Resident in Livingston County in 1865.

  • Halstead, Charles Grimes
    Person
    Halstead, Charles Grimes
    b. 1812-12-04 d. 1894-10-09

    Livingston County, Kentucky, farmer. Married to Martha Ann Barnes on August 3, 1837. Father of Mahaley Halstead and Mary Ann Halstead. Married to Sarah Jane Malacia Boyd Halstead on February 17, 1842. Father of Richard P. Halstead, Mildred Halstead, Eliza Halstead, Charles Halstead, and Rebecca Halstead. Justice of the Peace in Livingston County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Livingston County in 1850. Farmer in Livingston County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Livingston County in 1860.

  • Foster, Anthony
    Person
    Foster, Anthony
    b. 1830?

    Livingston County, Kentucky, farmer. Married to Margaret V. Walker on December 22, 1857. Farmer in Livingston County in 1860.

  • Read, William Brown
    Person
    Read, William Brown
    b. 1817-12-14 d. 1880-08-05

    Hodgenville, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Hardin County, Kentucky, native. Married S. R. Read. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1857 to 1865. Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in Charleston, South Carolina, and Baltimore, Maryland, in 1860. Unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1863. Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, in 1864.

  • Yancy, William H.
    Person
    Yancy, William H.
    b. 1828-03-25 d. 1878-04-24

    Marshall County, Kentucky, farmer. Alabama native. Married to Susan A. E. Walker Yancy on December 14, 1852. Father of John T. Yancy, Edward O. Yancy, and William D. Yancy. Appointed postmaster of Briensburg, Marshall County, Kentucky, on May 1, 1856. Farmer in Marshall County in 1860.

  • Bennett, C.
    Person
    Bennett, C.

    Member of the convention of the provisional government held in Russellville, Kentucky, in November 1861. Appears in the indictment of the Commonwealth of Kentucky vs P.H. Conant and Jesse Thompson in Livingston County, Kentucky, in May 1864.

  • Jones, John
    Person
    Jones, John
    b. 1816-10-19 d. 1868-05-04

    Livingston County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary M. Jones. Father of Sylvester Jones, Mary E. Jones, Margaret A. Jones, John A. Jones, Gilbert A. Jones, Finis M. Jones, and Charles Jones. Farmer in Livingston County in 1860.

  • Garrett, Thomas
    Person
    Garrett, Thomas
    b. 1831?

    Kentucky soldier. Greenup County, Kentucky, native. Dentist in 1864. Served in the 1st Kentucky Light Artillery Regiment (U.S.A.) as private from August 31, 1863, to March 26, 1864. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as private and sergeant from March 26, 1864, to July 14, 1865.

  • Bradley, Charles L.
    Person
    Bradley, Charles L.
    b. 1836 d. 1881

    Kalamazoo, Michigan, farmer and soldier. Native of Ireland. Son of Andrew Bradley and Elizabeth Bradley. Farmer in Kalamazoo in 1860. Served in the 25th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as sergeant from September 11, 1862, to October 10, 1863. Served in the 1st Kentucky Light Artillery Regiment (U.S.A.) as a sergeant from October 10, 1863, to November 14, 1864.

  • Anderson, William Pope
    Person
    Anderson, William Pope
    b. 1840-09-10 d. 1897-11-20

    Cincinnati, Ohio, civil engineer and soldier. Ohio native. Son of Larz Anderson and Catharine Longworth Anderson. Married to Julia Worthington Anderson on July 21, 1863. Father of Vachel W. Anderson. Resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1850. Civil engineer in Cincinnati in 1860. Served in the 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U. S. A.) as a corporal from April 20, 1861 to August 27, 1861. Served in the in the Department of the Ohio as a captain and assistant adjutant general from 1862, to March 18, 1864.

  • Morrow, Robert
    Person
    Morrow, Robert
    b. 1846-04-13 d. 1873-11-27

    Knoxville, Tennessee, soldier. Tennessee native. Son of Samuel Morrow and Melinda Morrow. Resident of Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1850. Household owned one enslaved person in Knoxville in 1850. Resident of Knoxville in 1860. Served in the Department of the Ohio (U.S.A.) as assistant adjutant general from September 4, 1863, to November 30, 1866.

  • Tice, William J.
    Person
    Tice, William J.
    b. 1848?

    Arrested in Louisville, Kentucky, in May 1863. Prisoner in the Kentucky State Penitentiary at Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1863. Arrested in Covington, Kentucky, in 1863 for stealing.

  • Eversole, John C.
    Person
    Eversole, John C.
    b. 1830 d. 1864-05-02

    Perry County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy Anne Duff Eversole. Father of Sarah Eversole, Elizabeth Eversole, Harrison Eversole, Joseph Eversole, George Eversole, Clarkston Eversole, Mary Eversole, Polly Eversole, and John C. Eversole. Farmer in Perry County, Kentucky in 1850. Farmer in Perry County in 1860. Served in the 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as major from February 1863 to March 1864. Killed by guerrillas in Estill County on May 2, 1864.

  • Raines, Henry
    Person
    Raines, Henry

    Indicted in the Henderson Circuit Court in 1863.