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unknown, Daniel
Little is known about Daniel. Daniel is mentioned as being the brother of Harriet Scott in Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 7, Kentucky, Bogie-Woods (with combined interviews of others).
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unknown, Harrison [3]
Siblings of Harriet were Harrison, Daniel, Merida, Ned, Susie, Myra, Emma, and Maria. Born outside of Bryantsville in Garrard County, KY. Harriet and siblings Myra, Emma, and Ned were by General Gano to Tarrant County, TX, to a town called Lick Skillet. After emancipation, Harriet and two of the children traveled back to Kentucky with General Gano and his wife to the Jones family. Harriet later married and lived out her life in Lancaster, Kentucky. Harriet had nine children and listed that only two were living during her interview. Harriet had no grandchildren at the time of the interview.
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Jones, Amy
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Scott, Daniel
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Scott, Harriet
Siblings of Harriet were Harrison, Daniel, Merida, Ned, Susie, Myra, Emma, and Maria. Born outside of Bryantsville in Garrard County, KY. Harriet and siblings Myra, Emma, and Ned were by General Gano to Tarrant County, TX, to a town called Lick Skillet. After emancipation, Harriet and two of the children traveled back to Kentucky with General Gano and his wife to the Jones family. Harriet later married and lived out her life in Lancaster, Kentucky. Harriet had 9 children and listed that only two were living during her interview. Harriet had no grandchildren at the time of the interview.
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unknown, Adams
All that is known about Adams is that he had been enslaved on a 400-acre plantation owned by the Cleveland family near Versailles in Woodford County, Kentucky. At some point, likely between 1862 and 1865, he unsuccessfully attempted to flee enslavement. When he returned, his enslaver, an unknown member of the Cleveland family, hit him over the head with a log from a fire. This event is recounted by George Henderson, a young child enslaved on the plantation.
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unknown, Betty [7]
Betty was the sister of George Henderson and was enslaved in Versailles, Kentucky, likely to Milford Twiman of the Cleveland family. She was born in the 1850s or 1860s.
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unknown, Elle
Elle was the sister of George Henderson and was enslaved in Versailles, Kentucky, likely to Milford Twiman of the Cleveland family. She was born in the 1850s or 1860s.
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unknown, Joe [13]
Joe was the brother of George Henderson and was enslaved in Versailles, Kentucky, likely to Milford Twiman of the Cleveland family. He was probably born in the 1850s or 1860s.
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unknown, Sa
Sa was the brother of George Henderson and was enslaved in Versailles, Kentucky, likely to Milford Twiman of the Cleveland family. He was probably born in the 1850s or 1860s.
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unknown, Milford
Milford was the brother of George Henderson and was enslaved in Versailles, Kentucky, likely to Milford Twiman of the Cleveland family. 1850s or 1860s
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Henderson, Bradford
Bradford was enslaved by Milford Twiman of the Cleveland Family in Versailles, Kentucky. He had at least one son, George Henderson. George had five siblings, but it is unknown whether these were all the children of Bradford Henderson. He had a watchdog named Brutus, whom he had trained to sit and keep watch wherever he placed his hat. Bradford sometimes would hunt for possums and rabbits while carrying his son, George, on his back. It is unknown if he was married, but at least one child, George, took the same surname as him.
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Henderson, George
George Henderson was born on May 10, 1860, near Versailles in Woodford County, Kentucky. His father was Bradford Henderson; his mother is unknown. He was one of twenty-one siblings, although including him, only six lived past childhood. Those who survived were three brothers (Milford, Sa, and Joe) and two sisters (Elle and Betsy).
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Bogie, Dan [1]
A Dan Bogie enslaved Bogie on his property near Kirksville in Madison County, Kentucky. The enslaver, Dan Bogie, owned about 200 acres of land in the eastern portion of Garrard County. In the early 1860s, the enslaved Dan Bogie lived somewhere on this property with his wife, Lucinda Embry, and their two children. Lucinda had been enslaved by the Wheeler family in Garrard County. His son, also named Dan Bogie, was born on May 5, 1858. Two years later, they had a daughter whose name was unknown. They lived in a one-room cabin. Bogie and Lucinda slept on a four-post, corded bed while their children slept on a corded trundle. It is unknown what kind of work Bogie was put to during his enslavement, but according to his son, he and the other men would go fishing on Saturday afternoons.
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Embry, Jim
While little is known about Jim Embry, he had at least one child, a daughter, likely with a woman enslaved by the Wheeler family. His daughter, Lucinda Embry, had two children, Jim’s grandchildren, a boy named Dan Bogie (born 1858) and a girl (name unknown; born 1860). His Enslaver’s name was Talton Embry, and his property bordered the Wheeler property in Garrard County. Jim’s grandson, Dan Bogie, remembered Jim making shingles using a steel drawing knife in Talton Embry’s yard. His grandson also recalled Jim being adept at mending shoes.
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Bogie, unknown [1]
Bogie was born in 1860 as the second child of Embry and Dan Bogie [1]. She had one older brother, Dan Bogie [2], born in 1858. As a child, she lived with her brother and parents in a one-room cabin on the Bogie property, a 200-acre piece of land east of Garrard County, Kentucky. She shared a corded trundle bed with her brother that rolled under their parent's bed of a similar make. She wore linsey clothes in the winter that would be dyed various colors using herbs. Pokeberry was often used for this, probably for its ability to dye cloth reddish colors from a deep maroon to a lighter mauve pink. In the summer, she wore cotton dyed with yellow mustard seeds. It is not known how long she lived. All that is known is that she died before 1941 (the year her brother was interviewed) when she would have been 81 years old. She is buried somewhere near Lancaster, Kentucky.
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Embry, Lucinda
Lucinda Embry was likely born sometime in the 1840s or maybe late 1830s in Garrard County, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Jim Embry, who Talton Embry enslaved. Lucinda’s mother’s name is unknown, but she was likely enslaved by the Wheeler family, who owned land in Gerrard County east of Lancaster. Lucinda had at least one sibling, a brother whose name is unknown. He died, likely sometime in the 1860s, and was buried on the Wheeler’s property. According to her son, she made his passing somewhat challenging. Lucinda had two children with Dan Bogie, who was enslaved by the Bogie family in Kirksville in Madison County. Her oldest child was a boy named Dan, after his father, and he was born on May 5, 1858. She also had a daughter born in 1860, but her name is unknown. The family of four lived in a one-room cabin on the Bogie’s 200-acre property. Lucinda and Dan slept on a high-post, corded bed while their children shared a trundle bed, also corded. While they were infants, Lucinda would rock her children in a cradle made from a wooden box with a pair of rockers nailed onto it. Though the work she did varied, she spent much time working with wool, carding it and spinning it into yarn. When they did not have to work on Saturday afternoons, Lucinda would work on piecing quilts with other enslaved women in the area. Sometime after 1860, Lucinda was baptized in Paint Lick Creek by a Baptist preacher.
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Bogie, Dan [2]
Dan Bogie was born on May 5, 1858, at the Abe Wheeler place about nine miles east of Lancaster in Madison County, KY. The area was Spoonsville at his birth, but later became known as Nina. Dan Bogie enslaved his father, Dan Bogie [1], in Kirksville, and it was after him Dan was named. His mother’s family was from Garrard County to the west, and her name was Lucinda Embry. She was enslaved by the Wheeler family there. He had a younger sister born in 1860, whose name is unknown, and passed away before him. She was buried near Lancaster in Garrard County. His family lived in a one-room cabin on the 200-acre property of Dan Bogie (enslaver). Dan grew up in a one-room cabin with his family. He and his sister shared a trundle bed. Dan claimed he was never put to work when he was enslaved (Slavery would be abolished when Dan was seven years old). Dan and his family attended church at Mt. Freedom, where they sat in the gallery. The first African American preacher he heard speak was Leroy Estill at the Freedom Meeting House, a Baptist church.
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Davis, Daniel
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Johnson, Eliza [2]
Eliza worked as a nurse for a couple in Cincinnati. It is uncertain whether she was ever enslaved in Kentucky. Eliza traveled with her employers to Louisville and stayed with them there in a boarding house. She became acquainted with an enslaved man who worked in the boarding house during their stay. After Eliza returned to Cincinnati with her employers, the man she had befriended sought his freedom and made it to Canada. The enslaver, Mr. Mann, accused Eliza of instigating her friend to leave his enslaver and seek his freedom. The punishment could have resulted in several years in a penitentiary for Eliza. She was brought to Louisville and placed in jail. The case relied solely on the wife of Mr. Mann, who purportedly went to Cincinnati to befriend Eliza and obtain a confession of her part in the enslaved man’s decision. This was thankfully not enough, and she was discharged without ever having been indicted in the first place.
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unknown, Frank [19]
Frank was enslaved by General Taylor in Kentucky, close to the Cincinnati River. He would often be loaned out to work in Cincinnati for days at a time, if not longer, under the order of the enslaver. During one of these stays, he learned that under the laws of the time, being brought into Ohio by the enslaver was grounds for nullifying the enslaver's claim on him. Frank claims his freedom, but Taylor chooses not to fight this claim. Frank lived in freedom for seven or eight years before an unnamed son-in-law of General Taylor, who had obtained Frank's bill of sale, had Frank seized. After a hasty trial, Frank ended up enslaved again down in Louisiana. He sued for his freedom and remained in jail while awaiting a determination. Though he did win in his suit, Frank died from an illness he contracted in jail before he could experience his freedom.
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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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Wiles, William
William Wiles was born sometime around 1814, possibly in Kentucky, where he was enslaved in Jessamine County by George J. Brown. Willam bought his freedom. He paid Brown $125 a year for his "time" so that he could do work to earn money. After four years, he saved the $400 to purchase his freedom. At some point in life, he moved to Lexington, where he lived and worked as a carriage driver. It is unknown when he died, but he lived to be at least 83 in 1897.
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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.
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Bacon, John Glenn
John Bacon and his family moved from Virginia to Kentucky sometime between 1810 and 1820.