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unknown, John [79]
John was among the enslaved people appraised as part of the estate of Willis Arnold in 1855; he was valued at $350. He was mentioned in the 1856 guardian's report. In the 1857 settlement, John was alotted to Alfred S. Arnold, along with a woman named Jintsey or Jane.
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unknown, Sarah [46]
Sarah was given an appraisal value of $400 as recorded in the 1855 inventory of Willis Arnold's estate. A second mention of her was made in an 1856 guardian report. In the guardian settlement in 1857, Sarah was one of two enslaved females of the same name, alotted to Samuel P. Arnold, one was thirteen, the other 2 years old.
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unknown, Mary Elizabeth [3]
Mary Elizabeth was appraised with a value of $400 for the inventory of Willis Arnold's estate in 1855 and is mentioned in a guardian's report in 1856. She did not appear among the enslaved people mentioned in the guardian's settlement in 1857.
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unknown, Jintsey
In the 1855 inventory of the estate of Willis Arnold, Jintsey was valued at $600. She was mentioned in an 1856 guardianship report with "her infant child." In the 1857 settlement, Jintsey (here called Jane) and a boy, John, were alotted to Alfred S. Arnold and given a combined value of $900.
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Ragan, Ambrose
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unknown, Lucy [52]
Lucy was the daughter of Mary, who was enslaved by Reuben George. George's 1814 will explicitly stated that all of the enslaved people should be manumitted, some within ten years. others as soon as was deemed appropriate by the administrator. Finally, all should be manumitted at the death of the widow. Lucy's mother was manumitted in 1824.
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unknown, Joe [16]
In the 1814 will of Bourbon County enslaver Reuben George, Joe was identified as one of five boys who were to be manumitted as soon as the administrator and widow deemed appropriate. Additionally each boy was to be taught a trade. No additional information about Joe has been found.
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unknown, Jarrard
Jarrard was enslaved by Reuben George of Bourbon County, who directed he be taught a trade and manumitted as soon as deemed appropriate. Jarrard learned the skill of shoemaking. He was manumitted at the age of 22, in 1829.
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unknown, Mary [106]
Bourbon County enslaver Reuben George directed in his 1814 will that Mary should be freed at his administrators' discretion, no later than ten years after his death.
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Langford, Isaac E.
Isaac was received as a member of the West Elkton Meeting on April 23, 1874.
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Langford, Anna E.
Ann was received as a member of the West Elkton Meeting on April 23, 1874.
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Langford, Nancy
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Langford, Walter J.
Walter Langford was a sharecropper farmer. The agricultural schedule for the 1880 census shows that he paid his rent in a share of the produce, rather than a fixed price. The schedule also shows that he had two horses, 48 acres of land in tilling rotation, 1 acre as permanent meadow, and 20 acres of forest or woodland on the land he rented.
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Langford, Americus
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unknown, Charles [40]
35-yr-old Charles was a freedom seeker working at the Kentucky Steam Furnace in Greenup county when he made his escape. He was described as about 5'10" tall with full whiskers and a significant scar on his right elbow. An "ample" reward was promised for his return by Shreve & Co, owned by brothers Thomas and Levin Shreve.
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unknown, Daniel [24]
Daniel escaped his Pettis Co, MO enslavers, David & John H. Willia,s, on April 11, 1859, along with two other Kentucky-born freedom seekers, Sandford and Bill. Twenty year old Daniel was described as of "good countenance" and was raised in Southern Kentuky. A reward of up to $600 was offered for all three men.
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unknown, Sandford
Sandford escaped his Pettis Co, MO enslavers, David & John H. Willia,s, on April 11, 1859, along with two other Kentucky-born freedom seekers, Daniel & Bill. Sandford was described as about 30 yrs old, with a "bright" complexion and blue eyes, 5'10" tall and very intelligent. He had a wife in Bath Co, KY. A reward of up to $600 was offered for the three men.
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unknown, Isaac [16]
Isaac was a freedom seeker who was captured in Boone County in 1828. The jailer was unable to learn his origin and the name of the enslaver who claimed him. He was described as about 40 years old, 5' 8" tall with a "yellow complexion."
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unknown, Suckey [6]
Suckey was enslaved initially by Joseph Hawkins, Sr.. She may have been brought to Kentucky from Spotsylvania Co., Virginia, by the Hawkins family . A lawsuit in 1803 in the Bourbon County Circuit Court shows a complicated tangle of bills of sale, all involving Suckey. Over three years' time, sixteen year old Suckey had been claimed by six separate enslavers.
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Nelson, Squire [1]
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Nelson, Squire [2]
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Cave, James
James Cave was born into enslavement in Kentucky, most likely in Taylor County.
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Barren, Emma
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White, Add
Add White was enslaved by Daniel G. White in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. He fled enslavement sometime before August 21, 1856, via the Underground Railroad. Around August 21, while going through Ohio, Add White was hidden by four men in Mechanicsburg, east of Urbana. These men included Russel Hyde, Hiram Guttridge, and two brothers, Charles and Edward Taylor. The four would be arrested for aiding Add in June of the following year. Theirs and Add’s ultimate fates are unknown.
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Moore, Phoebe
Pheobe was born between 1809 and 1836 in Boone County, Kentucky, the daughter of a white farmer and an enslaved woman. When she was twelve, Pheobe and her mother were sold to Colonel Thomas H. Benton, who served as one of Missouri's first two United States senators from 1821 to 1851. Phoebe was enslaved to Benton for about four years before he sold her to Henry Clay at sixteen years old. According to her obituary, Clay regularly had sexual relations with Phoebe, resulting in two children whose fates are unknown. Clay later freed her and went to live in Memphis, Tennessee. She kept a collection of letters written to her from Clay after she became free, but the only attestation to the letters and the affair with Clay was reported second-hand in her obituary. In Memphis, she married Tom Moore, an Irishman. Pheobe never told Tom about Clay's actions or the two children. The couple moved to New Orleans, where Pheobe lived for the rest of her life. Tom enlisted in "Dreux's Battalion," the 1st Louisiana Infantry Battalion during the Civil War. He was killed in Virginia, possibly during the Union Army's Peninsula Campaign in 1862. After the death of her husband, she made a living by sewing. She died at the Charity Hospital.