African Americans of the Kentucky Borderlands

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• Boone County Government (Ky.)

• Fowler, Jacob

  In 1796 Fowler was appointed Campbell County Deputy Sheriff. In 1810 Jacob Fowler was in Newport, Campbell, Kentucky with one known enslaved. The 1820 census shows Jacob Fowler with nine known enslaved. In 1830 Jacob Fowler was known to have eight enslaved in Campbell County, Kentucky. Jacob Fowler died Oct 16, 1849. His death was reported in the Covington Journal Newspaper.

• Johnson, Cave

  Cave Johnson was among the most prominent early Boone County citizens. The son of William and Elizabeth Johnson, Cave was born 15 November 1760 in Orange Co., Virginia. He served as a Private in the Revolutionary War, then came to Kentucky in April of 1779, spending time at Bryant's Station near Lexington.

• Ryle family

  Slave Holding
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  Gaines family

  Abolitionist

• Adams, Bluford Watson

  On April 6, 1898, Bluford was appointed the Postmaster for Hamilton in Boone County, Ky.

• Clore family

  Slave Holding

• Boone County recorder (Florence, Ky. : 1875)

  The main newspaper for the Boone County area for over a century, the Recorder was founded in 1875 by W. L. Riddell. It is the oldest continuously operating newspaper in the county. The newspaper's office in Burlington was built in 1939.

• Terrill, John B.

  John Terrill Jr. was born in Fauquier County, VA in 1799 to John Terrill and Rebecca Cornelius, one of eleven children. His family came to Kentucky when he was about five years old. John Sr. was a board member of the Petersburg Steam Mill Company in 1818, which would later become the Petersburg Distillery. Several of John Sr. and Rebecca's children were born in Boone County.

• Rouse family

  Slave Holding

• Boone County Will Books

  The compiled will records for Boone County, Kentucky covering 1800-1915. The microfilm is available at the Boone County Public Library.

• Boone County Court Orders

  The court records for Boone County, Kentucky covering 1799-1914. The microfilm is available at the Boone County Public Library.

• Bush, John

  Born in 1767 in Winchester, Virginia to Phillip and Catherine Slough Bush, John Bush moved to Kentucky in 1788 and lived with the Marshall Family in what was Fayette County. While with the Marshall Family, John Craig fought in the Northwest Indian Wars of the 1790's and marched on Ft. Wayne in 1789 under William Henry Harrison. According to Sharon M. Campbell ('Ryle Relatives'), Bush married Sallie Craig in 1792 in Woodford County. Sallie Craig was the daughter of John Hawkins Craig. By 1794 Bush had relocated to what became Boone County and lived on the Ohio River in North Bend.
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  Goodridge, Walter

  Walter Goodridge was born June 11, 1798. Walter is known to have 6 enslaved in the 1820 census. He was living in Burlington, Boone County, Kentucky. In 1830 Walter Goodridge is listed in Boone County with 3 enslaved. The 1840 census lists Walter with 8 enslaved living in Boone County, Kentucky. The 1860 District Two Boone County, Kentucky census shows Walter with wife Polly and four children. In 1870 Walter Goodridge is shown living in Taylorsport, Boone County, Kentucky with wife Angeline and four children. Walter Goodridge is listed as born in Virginia and 82 years old in the 1880 census. He was living in Taylorsport, Boone County, Kentucky with wife Ann. No children were listed living with them.

• James, Henry Field

  Henry Field James was sworn in as a Justice of the Peace in December of 1832, and remained on the Court for many years. He became Sheriff in October 1850. He was the first Sheriff to serve under a County Judge, as the position was created that year by a Constitutional Convention.

• Vawter, Edmund F.

  Edmund F. Vawter was born in Culpeper (Va.), married in 1809, and moved to Boone County (Ky.) with his wife, and several siblings. He appears in the 1810 Census living in Versailles, Woodford County (Ky.). An 1830 Boone County (Ky.) Court Order places him as a County Attorney. In 1837 he served as Boone County's Representative in the General Assembly, Kentucky's state legislature.

• Tanner family

  Slave Holding

• Rice family

  Slave Holding

• Hume, Elzaphan

  Elzaphan Hume was commissioned as a Justice of the Peace in Boone County, KY on 12 Jun 1801. He left that position to become the Boone County Sheriff on 9 Nov 1808.

• Kirtley, Robert E.

  Robert Kirtley was born May 30, 1786 along the Rapidian River in Culpepper (now Madison) County, Virginia, the son of Jeremiah and Mary Kirtley. In 1796 he moved with his parents to Boone County, Kentucky, where he resided for the rest of his life.
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  Meeks Ferry (Belleview, Ky.)

  Although Edward Meeks owned the ferry in what is now Belleview for only a short time, the name has persisted for 200 years.
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  Big Bone Baptist Church Cemetery (Boone County, Ky.)

  This is a church cemetery for the earliest church in the Big Bone region. It contains hundreds of internments, and is still in active use.

• Smith family

  African American
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  Brasher, George Washington [1]

• Graves, Willis [1]

  Willis Graves was born on 12 Oct 1790 in Madison County, Virginia to Absalom and Felicia White Graves. He married twice: first to Catherine "Kitty" Johnson, dauughter of Cave Johnson; and later to Sophia Conn after Kitty died tragically within a year of their marriage. Willis Graves is best known for serving as Boone County Clerk during the 1810s and 1820s. he died at a relatively young age in 1834 and is buried within the family cemetery near Petersburg, Kentucky.