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Telegraphic Despatches This is a section of the full "Telegraphic Despatches"
- Shelley, Peter
- Duvall, Catherine Elizabeth
- Duvall, Bailey Anderson, Sr.
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Minor, Artie May According to her death certificate, Artie was separated from her husband, Leonard, at the time of her death.
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Brockman, Samuel B. Samuel is listed as residing in Gallatin County, Ky. in the 1800 census index.
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Brooks, Henry Clay Henry Brooks enlisted into the Union army as a Private, and was promoted to the rank of Corporal on July 30, 1865.
- Anderson, John [2]
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unknown, Dennis [2] Freedom seeker Dennis escaped from Georgetown enslaver Hugh Emison on May 15, 1813. He was spotted with a white man in Dry Ridge, Grant County, two days later, presumably making his way toward Cincinnati. Dennis was about 27 years old, blind in one eye and was likely to be carrying paperwork from a previously pending freedom lawsuit in Harrison County. A reward of up to $100 was offered for his return.
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1815 - Scott Co., Escape from a congressman In September, 1815, Richard Mentor Johnson, who would eventually become the Vice President of the United States, placed an ad in 1815, offering a reward for the return of Kit, a freedom seeker who had escaped his farm in Scott County while he was away in Washington D.C., serving in the U..S. House of Representatives. Johnson had purchased Kit several years prior from the jailer of Scott County, where he was being held, likely as aw runaway. Kit had left during the previous winter, and had been spotted in Gallatin County near the home of Robert Johnson, Richard's father in February, 1815. It was expected that he was in either Ohio or Indiana, or possibly had gone south toward Natchez or New Orleans. Kit was about 40 years old and was a carpenter.
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1813 - Scott Co., Freedom for Dennis Freedom seeker Dennis escaped from Georgetown enslaver Hugh Emison on May 15, 1813. He was spotted with a white man in Dry Ridge, Grant County, two days later, presumably making his way toward Cincinnati. Dennis was about 27 years old, blind in one eye and was likely to be carrying paperwork from a previously pending freedom lawsuit in Harrison County. A reward of up to $100 was offered for his return.
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unknown, Celia [5] Around Mar. 15, 1821, thirty-year-old freedom seeker Celia escaped from Jessamine County enslaver, William L. McQuie. It was thought she would be found either in Frankfort, where several of her children were or Gallatin County, where her husband worked in the steam mill. A reward of $50 was offered for her return.
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1821 - Jessamine Co., Celia flees to her family Around Mar. 15, 1821, thrity-year-old freedom seeker Celia escaped from Jessamine County enslaver, William L. McQuie. It was thought she would be found either in Frankfort, where several of her children were or Gallatin County, where her husband worked in the steam mill. A reward of $50 was offered for her return.
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Sparta (Ky.) Though mostly located in Gallatin County, the southern portion of town is in Owen County.
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Marion (Ky.) The county seat of Crittenden County, the town was named for Revolutionary War General Francis Marion.
- Rouse, Thomas
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Smith, Peggy "Held by Thomas Henderson family of Grant County, connected to Thomas Rouse family of Boone County, Kentucky. Henderson purchased Peggy's family from Robert Daniels. Peggy was married to John Robinson by a ""white minister"" according to Emma Rouse Lloyd's book, ""Clasping Hands with Generations Past."" Peggy was buried on her son Andrew's farm, in the Robinson cemetery on Chambers Road"
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Robinson, John [2] "Held by Thomas Henderson family of Grant County, connected to Thomas Rouse family of Boone County, Kentucky. Henderson purchased Robinson and family from Robert Daniels. John was married to Peggy Smith by a ""white minister"" according to Emma Rouse Lloyd's book, ""Clasping Hands with Generations Past."" John was buried on his son Andrew's farm, in the Robinson cemetery on Chambers Road."
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Atha, Clifton S. On August 26, 1913 Clifton Atha filed an application for confederate pension. Atha wrote that he was a prisoner of war at Stone River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Clifton Atha also listed he was assigned to Co. A, 2nd Battalion, Tennessee Calvary, under General Wheeler, Buford's Cavalry.
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Arnold, William, J. Captured and was a prisoner of war in Knoxville, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky. Paroled and released in June of 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Big Bone Island (Ky.) Big Bone Island was located in the middle of the Ohio River at the mouth of Big Bone Creek. It was just over the county line into neighboring Gallatin County, Kentucky. (The county line runs down the center of the creek.)
- Hamilton, Bertha E.
- Allphin, J.D.
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Cloudas, Pitman Pitman Cloudas was born in Virginia around 1789 or 1790. He moved to Kentucky around 1810 or 1811. On 11 July 1811 he married Eleanor Rayburn in Franklin County. After Eleanor's death, he married Joice Faulconer on 18 May 1826.
- Poore, Della