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Caile, Robert
He was treated for acute rheumatism while in field, and sent to a hospital in Lavelle. He mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky.
A transcription error in Ancestry identifies his birth location as Boone, North Carolina.
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Arnold, Alfred S.
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Armstrong, Edward G.
The 1850 Boone County (Ky.) census lists Edward G. Armstrong's occupation as "attorney at law."
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Anderson, Sandford
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Anderson, John [1]
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Cave, John W.
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Calvert, Wesley
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Barkshire, Arthur
Born in Boone County to Samuel Barkshire and Frances Harriet Newman, Arthur was first enslaved by Dickey Barkshire and then the Hawkins family. He was a known UGRR conductor out of Rising Sun, Indiana, along with father and brother.
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Garner, Robert
Robert was the husband of Margaret Garner. He and Margaret, along with their children and Robert's parents, all attempted to escape enslavement in 1856. They were discovered in Cincinnati by a posse, and forcefully returned to their slaveholders.
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Kite, Elijah
A man, woman and child escaped from Wilson Harper of Boone County (Elijah, Arelda and Spencer). The enslaved man was the son of a free man in Cincinnati named Keyte (Joseph Kite). Harper agreed to sell the family to Keyte, with his property in Cincinnati as collateral, a case was brought before the courts when the mortgage was due yet unpaid, in 1851. Harper was ultimately awarded the property and the enslaved people remained free.; In January 1856, Freedom seeker Margaret Garner and her family sought refuge in Kite's home in Cincinnati after escaping from Boone County, Kentucky. Soon after arriving, the freedom seekers were captured and one of Garner's children was killed by her in an act of resistance against their enslavement. Elijah Kite, who may have been a cousin of Margaret Garner, was accused of turning the family in to her slave holder Archibald Gaines and a posse. Alternately, Kite is named as a friend of the family who assisted the Garners during their attempt to escape enslavement.
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Garner, Thomas
Thomas was sold south, along with the rest of the Garner family, following their recapture in January 1856. He appears on the 1870 Census in Franklin County, Tennessee working as a laborer.