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  • Misc.  (11)
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  • 1840's  (1)
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    • ♦ [?][?] Kills Constable William Bates
      Wayne County. October 1849. 1 source.
      William Bates, 24 year-old white married male employed as Constable listed as stabbed on the 1850 Wayne Mortality Schedule.
      See: No. 14 on Wayne Co. Mortality Schedule, Pg 2
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  • 1850's  (9)
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    • ♦ 1850 Census Mortality Schedule
      Pulaski, Rockcastle, Russell, Wayne & Whitley Counties. 1849/1850. 1 source.
      Full size images of the 1850 Census Mortality Schedule for these counties. No transcriptions, images only. Lincoln and Laurel counties not available (not on Ancestry). Contains names reported to the census taker of those persons who died within the previous twelve months. Columns include name, age, sex, color, free or slave, married or widowed, place of birth, month the person died, occupation, cause of death, and number of days ill.

    • ♦♦ 1850 Census Slave Schedule
      Laurel, Lincoln, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne, & Whitley Counties. Summer 1850. 1 source.
      Full size images of the 1850 Census Slave Schedule for these counties. No transcriptions, images only. These list the names of slaveowners in these counties along with basic information about the slaves they own, such as age and sex. Unfortunately the names of the slaves themselves were not recorded in most counties throughout the U.S.
      See also: Index of 1850 Pulaski County Slave Schedule [external link]

    • ♦ [?][?] Kills Eunice Owens
      Rockcastle County. May 1850. 1 source.
      Eunice Owins/Owens, 57 year-old white married female listed as murdered on the 1850 Rockcastle Mortality Schedule. (If you have a better guess at the handwriting than my guess of Owens please let me know.)
      See: No. 7 on the 1850 Rockcastle Co. Mortality Schedule, Pg 1

    • ♦♦ Abolitionist Cassius M. Clay Bails Man Out of Rockcastle Jail
      Rockcastle and Madison Counties. Fall 1853. 6 sources.
      Contains articles relating to abolitionist Cassius M. Clay in Rockcastle County in 1853, where he bailed out a man named [Azel(l) George Washington] Parker who had been imprisoned for "inciting slaves to leave their masters." A group of Rockcastle County slaveholders got together and wrote some resolutions condemning Clay, which I couldn't find published, unfortunately, only responses to it, including the response of "a large and enthusiastic meeting of the yeomanry, of Rockcastle and Madison counties" who published their own resolutions, denouncing the group of Rockcastle slaveholders.

    • ♦ John Comely Kills Stephen Spratt
      Garrard County. 6 August 1855. 1 source.
      See: Comely v. Commonwealth, Garrard, 1856

    • ♦ Henry Harris Kills [?] Isham
      Garrard County. August[?] 1858. 1 source.
      "Henry Harris was poor and without friends, and it being the opinion of many good citizens there that he was innocent, the Killing being done in a drunken melee about dark, and one of the party engaged in it left the Same night, and has not to my Knowledge been in the State Since..."

    • ♦  Phillip Cormany Kills [?] Hines
      Pulaski County. Prior to March 1859. 1 source.
      "Phillip Cormany was tried and convicted to the Penitentiary of Ky for the period of Seven years for the killing of a man by the name of Hines at the march Term of the Pulaski Circuit Court 1859 that he is now in said Penetentiary..."

    • ♦ Jasper Rowsey Kills James Oldham, Jr.
      Lincoln County. 1 May 1859. 7 sources.
      "J. L. Ruffin, Esq., Chief of Police, received a telegram yesterday morning informing him of the escape--from Milledgeville Jail, Lincoln county, Ky.,--of Jasper Rouser, a person held in custody under a charge of murder. A reward of two hundred dollars is offered for his apprehension."
      See: Jasper Rowsey Hanged By Mob, Lincoln, 1859

    • ♦ Jasper Rowsey Hanged By Mob
      Lincoln County. 9 July 1859. 7 sources.
      "Arriving at Stanford, the county seat of Lincoln, he was placed in jail. Yesterday (Saturday) morning, about half-past two o'clock, a mob of some eighty persons attacked the prison, made a forcible entrance, and carried off the prisoner."

  • 1860's  (59)
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    • ♦ 1860 Census Mortality Schedule
      Boyle, Garrard, Lincoln, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Russell, Wayne, & Whitley Counties. 1859/1860. 1 source.
      Full size images of the 1860 Census Mortality Schedule for these counties. No transcriptions, images only. Laurel county not available (not on Ancestry). Contains names reported to the census taker of those persons who died within the previous twelve months. Columns include name, age, sex, color, free or slave, married or widowed, place of birth, month the person died, occupation, cause of death, and number of days ill.

    • ♦♦ 1860 Census Slave Schedule
      Laurel, Lincoln, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne, & Whitley Counties. Summer 1860. 1 source.
      Full size images of the 1860 Census Slave Schedule for these counties. No transcriptions, images only. These list the names of slaveowners in these counties along with basic information about the slaves they own, such as age and sex. Unfortunately the names of the slaves themselves were not recorded in most counties throughout the U.S.
      See also: Index of 1860 Pulaski County Slave Schedule [external link]

    • ♦♦ Map Showing Distribution of Slave Population by County [external link]
      United States. 1860.
      A map based on 1860 Census data that shows distribution of the slave population throughout the Southern United States. The numbers in each county represent the number of slaves in every 100 inhabitants. For example, in Pulaski County, KY there were 7.8 slaves for every 100 inhabitants.

    • ♦♦ Partial List of Ku-Klux/Regulator Activities in Kentucky
      Multiple Counties. 1867-1871. 2 sources.
      This post contains a letter written by a "committee of colored citizens of Frankfort and vicinity" to the United States Congress in March 1871.  It contains a partial list of crimes committed by ku-klux/regulator mobs in Kentucky between Nov. 1867 to Jan. 1871, including one Laurel County and five Pulaski County incidents. There are also mention of incidents in Lincoln, Garrard, Whitley, Boyle, and other surrounding counties. The second source is a newspaper article that used the same list to discredit a speech from former Ky. Governor Stevenson in which he stated "half a dozen instances of violence did occur, not more" during his administration.

  • --1860  (2)
    • ♦♦ [?][?] Kills Joshua [?] (slave)
      Whitley County. March 1860. 1 source.
      Joshua [?], 18 year-old black slave listed as killed by stabbing on the 1860 Whitley Mortality Schedule. If you have a guess about what is written after his first name please let me know. Here's my thinking on it: There's also something written in parentheses after his name that might say 'slave', maybe[?]. The clerk's capital S's are inconsistent in the slave/free column, but I'm confident all marks in that column are S's (look at the 's' in stabbed, for example). Confident the surname does not start with an 'L'. 'F', maybe? Surely it doesn't say "Free" because it says he's a slave, and surely he's not a slave with the surname Free?? That would be a cruel irony. However, it would explain why the clerk felt the need to write slave in parentheses...if that's even what that says.
      See: No. 8 on the 1860 Whitley Co. Mortality Schedule, Pg 1

    • ♦♦ Samuel Douglass Killed at his Mill
      near Crab Orchard, Lincoln County. 17 April 1860. 3 sources.
      "Mr. Samuel Douglas, of Lincoln county, was found dead in his mill, three miles from Crab Orchard, near the turnpike leading from Stanford." One of his slaves was suspected of the murder.

  • --1861  (3)
    • ♦ James Smith Kills Robert Raines
      Lincoln County. February 1861. 1 source.
      "Enclosed you will find the description of James Smith, who, about the last of Feby, in this [Lincoln] County, killed Robert Raines — he has fled, and we desire you to offer a reward for his apprehension. The murder was a most unwarrantable one, and the person murdered a young man of great respectability and goodness."

    • ♦ Battle of Camp Wildcat
      near Round Hill, Laurel County. 21 October 1861.
      Union victory. Union 5 killed, 20 wounded. CSA 11 killed, 42 missing or wounded. A May 19, 1871 article in the Danville Advocate indicates that an effort was made at that time to gather and bury remains "from the Wild Cat battle field and other places."

    • ♦ Soldier Kills Teenage Boy for Hurrahing for CSA Pres. Jefferson Davis
      Rockcastle County. November 1861. 25 sources.
      "The famous Sigman case is on trial at Mt. Vernon. Sigman killed a boy during the war for yelling for Jeff Davis. ... It is now claimed by Sigman that he was a Federal soldier at the time of the killing, and that he had the right to shoot Higginbotham for his treasonable utterances. The G. A. R. has put up money for Sigman's defense, and will do their utmost to clear him...."

  • --1862  (5)
    • ♦ James Harris Kills Dr. Bell and Dr. Reid
      Lincoln County. 1862[?]. 3 sources.
      "The case of the Commonwealth vs. Jas. S. Harris, charged with murdering two Confederate soldiers, Doctors Bell and Ried [Reid], in 1862, was called on Wednesday afternoon..."

    • ♦ Roll of Rockcastle and Lincoln County Home Guard
      Rockcastle and Lincoln Counties. 1862. 1 source.
      I've transcribed the names and rank only; See images for list of dates mustered in and out.
      See also: Roll of the Hall's Gap Battalion

    • ♦ Battle of Mill Springs
      west of Somerset, Pulaski County. 19 January 1862.
      Union victory. Union 39 killed, 207 wounded. CSA 125 killed, 404 wounded/missing. Confederate Brig. Gen. Felix Zollicoffer was killed in the battle.

    • ♦ Articles and Letters before/after The Battle of Mill Springs
      Pulaski County. December 1861 through February 1862. 21 sources.
      These are letters written before and after the battle, that include details about Christmas time at the Somerset camp, the difficulties of finding/cooking food in and around Somerset, descriptions of the camp, descriptions of the abandoned confederate entrenchments after the battle, encounters with local citizens, details about slaves/contrabands, burying the dead, etc.

    • ♦ Battle of Perryville
      near Perryville, Boyle County. 8 October 1862.
      Union victory. Union 845 killed, 2,851 wounded, 515 captured/missing. CSA 510 killed, 2,635 wounded, 251 captured/missing. Considered the largest battle fought in Kentucky.

  • --1863  (3)
    • ♦ William F. Kennedy Kills Frank Johnson
      Garrard County. 1863[?] 11 sources.
      Tried in 1879. "It is generally known that my husband, William F. Kennedy, was indicted at the last session of Court held in Garrard, for an act committed sixteen years ago. That indictment was sent to Lincoln and the deputy Sheriff came promptly to Crab Orchard, to arrest Mr. Kennedy..."

    • ♦ Man Lynched For Assault of Schoolgirl
      a few miles from Columbia, Adair County. 1863[?] 1 source.
      R. A. Downing recalls an 1863 lynching in a 1908 article.
      See: Source No. 14 in Child-Slayer Lynched by Mob, Russell/Wayne, 1908

    • ♦ Battle of Dutton's Hill (a.k.a. Battle of Somerset)
      1.5 miles from Somerset, Pulaski County. 31 March 1863.
      Union victory. Casualty reports vary from 10 killed to 80 killed.

  • --1864  (3)
    • ♦ Roll of the Hall's Gap Battalion
      Lincoln County. 1864. 1 source.
      I've transcribed the names and rank only; See images for list of dates mustered in and out. This Battalion was led by Major James H. Bridgewater. It was originally raised as an independent Company of Scouts attached to the secret service.
      See also: Roll of Rockcastle and Lincoln County Home Guard

    • ♦ Guerrillas/Regulators Kill Man at His Home
      ~10 miles north of Somerset, Pulaski County. 14 June 1864. 10 sources.
      "...a band of masked men went to the house of Coleman Stigall, called him up and shot him, and then made their escape. The affair created intense excitement at the time, but as it was just at the close of the rebellion, when party feeling was at a white-heat, it was thought advisable to let the affair rest until the country was quiet before the murder would be investigated." The case was tried in 1881.

    • ♦♦ Thomas Purden/Purdon Kills Dick [?] (slave)
      Lincoln County. Fall 1864. 2 sources.
      "...instantly he called out "hault" which was twice repeated and to no Effect as the person still advanced whereupon in the excitement of the Moment he fired, and unfortunately Killed Dick a Slave the property of Joseph McAlister..."

  • --1865  (5)
    • ♦ Goff's Historical Map of the U.S. Civil War[external link]
      1907 map.
      Map showing the major battles and raid routes of the Civil War.

    • ♦ David Atkins Kills Thomas Baird
      Rockcastle County. 1864/1865[?]. 1 source.
      "Sheriff Parton, of Bell County, who was in the city to-day, says not only was [David] Adkins charged with the murder of the woman [said to be his wife], but he was also charged with having murdered Thos. Baird, in 1864 or 1865, in Rockcastle County." -From an 1883 article.

    • ♦ Charles Yocum Kills James Gibson
      Lincoln County. 1865[?] 2 sources.
      "Charles Yocum, then a citizen of this county, killed James Gibson, who lived near where the King's Mountain Tunnel now is. The deadly fray commenced in a trivial dispute..."

    • ♦ James Wilson Kills [?][?]
      Pulaski County. 1865[?] 1 source.
      "The leader of this party is James Wilson... He belonged to the State Guard in 1865--killed a man in Pulaski County in that year..."

    • ♦♦ Elbert D. Kennedy Kills Wyatt Walker
      Garrard County. 1865[?] 4 sources.
      Tried in 1879. "On Saturday, the Grand Jury adjourned after finding more than eighty indictments. Among these was one against E. D. Kennedy, of Lincoln, for the killing of a colored man, named Wyatt Walker, thirteen years ago..."

  • --1866  (10)
    • ♦ Skeletal Remains Found in Well Lead to Multiple Murder Trials
      Pulaski County. 1866[?] 26 sources.
      "About ten days ago [June 1880], a farmer living about three miles from Somerset, on the Mt. Vernon road, was having a well dug on his place in a sink-hole, and found in it three human skeletons...."

    • ♦ Jim Lair Kills Wils. Alcorn
      Pulaski County. 1866[?] 3 sources.
      Tried in 1882. "A dispatch from Somerset says that the pardon of Jim Loge Lair was found in the clerk's office Friday, and the man was released from jail. He wept like a child when the pardon was shown him in prison. ... Lair is the man who was charged with the killing of Wils. Alcorn in 1866, and was arrested in Kansas about a month ago and brought to that place."

    • ♦♦ Regulators Rob Several Black Residents
      near Stanford, Lincoln County. 5 January 1866. 1 source.
      "On last Friday night several white men, dressed in soldiers' clothing, robbed the houses of several free blacks in the neighborhood of the Stanford toll gate, in this vicinity. One of these free men was Monroe Robertson, as respectable a freeman and family as in Kentucky. Two of them entered his house, seized him, and, with pistols in hand, proceeded to rob his wife and children of their clothing. Can white man's meanness descend below this? They had previously robbed an old negro of his pocket-book and seven dollars..."

    • ♦ Father and Son Murder Witness Against Them, Hanged by Mob
      Perryville, Boyle County. April 1866. 16 sources.
      Alleged John Taylor and William Taylor killed Mrs. Bottom because she was a witness against one or both in another criminal case. Mob hung both of them, but father was cut down, and he escaped to Missouri. He was captured 1878, brought back to Kentucky for trial. Sent to the penitentiary for life. Pardoned 1889 due to old age.

    • ♦ William L. Brown Kills County Clerk William M. Fox
      Somerset, Pulaski County. 4 June 1866. 8 sources.
      "Wm. Montgomery Fox, of Danville, was shot and killed in Somerset, by an old intimate friend by the name of Wm. Brown."

    • ♦♦ Four Prisoners Escape Danville Jail
      Danville, Boyle County. End of August 1866. 2 sources.
      "The names of the prisoners who escaped were James Slaughter, indicted [in Garrard] for murder, Holman Crawford (m.c.) indicted for larceny, George Washington (m.c.) indicted for larceny, and Lee (m.c.) imprisoned on suspicion of poisoning. It is believed that the pistol in the possession of Slaughter was given him by some of his friends who recently visited him in the jail. None of the party have yet been retaken."
      See: Freedmen's Bureau Schoolhouse Burned by Arsonists

    • ♦♦ Freedmen's Bureau Schoolhouse Burned by Arsonists
      Danville, Boyle County. End of August 1866. 2 sources.
      "[A] building built and used as a Freedman's Schoolhouse and owned by a Freedman named Jackson Davis was destroyed by fire last night in this town [Danville]. I have today initiated inquiries but have been unable to learn who were engaged in this outrage. There had been considerable excitement during the day, caused by the arrest of a Freedman charged with poissoning[sic] a man. During the evening this man and three others escaped from the jail which added to the excitement and probably led to the perpetuation of this outrage."

    • ♦ [?] Reed Kills [?] Howell
      Pulaski County. September 1866. 1 source.
      "A difficulty occurred between two men named Reed and Howell, in which the latter was shot in the head and mortally wounded by the former. Reed escaped, but was closely pursued by the officers at last accounts."

    • ♦♦ One Killed at House of Ill Repute Over Stolen Watch
      Flat Lick, Pulaski County. 15 November 1866. 1 source.
      "On Thursday night...a party of disreputable men were assembled at a disreputable house for purposes of debauch. During the night a negro entered the house and made a formal arrest of one of the inmates, by presenting a pistol and in due military form commanding him to surrender, charging the prisoner with having stolen a watch. ... [After some time,] the prisoner...effected his escape. After securing a pistol he returned and found his late captor still slumbering at his post. He thereupon aroused him to a sufficient degree...then fired his pistol's contents through the heart of the negro..."

    • ♦♦ Freedman Lynched on Christmas Eve
      Danville, Boyle County. 24 December 1866. 2 sources.
      "Al. McRoberts a Freedman, was in Danville on the 24th inst having in his possession a pistol carried by authority of Thomas P. Young a Police Judge of this town, to protect himself against one W.A. Harness an officer of Boyle Co. who had threatened to kill him." ... "At 10 P.M. a party went to the jail and took McRoberts to the outskirts of the town and hung him. The farce of an inquest was played the next morning, with no attempt to learn any facts about the case, and a verdict rendered simply stating that the man McRoberts came to his death by hanging by some parties unknown."

  • --1867  (5)
    • ♦♦ Regulators Attempt to Whip or Kill Maj. James H. Bridgewater
      Lincoln County. May 1867. 3 sources.
      "[A] gang of regulators in the Crab Orchard region, in Kentucky....entered that town the other day in search of a man named Bridgewater, an ex-officer of the army, whom they accused of horse stealing. Bridgewater gathered some of his friends to resist the regulator, and at last accounts a battle between the opposing parties was expected." Bridgewater was working for the Freedman's Bureau.
      See: The Murder of Major James H. Bridgewater, Lincoln, 1867
      Related: Roll of the Hall's Gap Battalion

    • ♦♦ Regulators Terrorize Several Black Residents
      Stanford, Lincoln County. First half of July 1867. 1 source.
      "A band of armed men shot one freedman in the leg, and whipped several others in the vicinity of Stanford, on Wednesday night. The wounded man was shot for attempting to escape. The reason given for the outrage was, that the negroes refused to work, and were suspected of being engaged in horse stealing."

    • ♦♦ Regulators Kill Maj. James H. Bridgewater
      Stanford, Lincoln County. 18 July 1867. 14 sources.
      "Six of the Regulators dismounted, and running up to the door fired upon Bridgewater, killing him instantly. The first shot, it is said, was fired by a man named [Walter] Sanders, who is Captain of the band, and as Bridgewater raised up in his chair the rest of the assassins discharged their revolvers. Some thirty shots in all were fired, eight entering his head and ten passing through his body." Walter Sanders served as Lincoln County Sheriff at one point. Maj. Bridgewater was leader of the Hall's Gap Battalion during the War and was working for the Freedman's Bureau at the time of his death.
      Related: Roll of the Hall's Gap Battalion

    • ♦ Kentucky Senate Candidate Kills Man At Poll Site
      Providence or Glades Precinct, Rockcastle County. 1 August 1867. 8 sources.
      "...Bullock and Ham, got into a fight at a political meeting at Providence, in Rockcastle county. Bullock bit off Ham's ear during the scuffle, and this so enraged the two sons of old man Ham that they picked a quarrel with the sons of old man Bullock. Young Bullock fired three shots at young Ham, missing him entirely. Young Ham then opened a small pocket knife and started after young Bullock, and while he was chasing him around the meeting house, he was shot in the back by [Republican Senate candidate Robert] Boyd."

    • ♦♦ George Beazley Threatens Craig Family
      Stanford, Lincoln County. 2 October 1867. 1 source.
      "[I]t appearing to me from the Affidavits of Rachel Craig, Lee Craig, Martha Craig and Fleming Craig, that George Beazley was on the 2nd day of October 1867 in the County of Lincoln and State aforesaid, guilty of stoning and threatening to kill the said Rachel Craig and Fleming Craig, persons of Color. These are therefore to command you to arrest the said George Beazley and deliver him to General Sidney Burbank at the Military prison in the City of Louisville at as early a day as practicable to answer said charge."

  • --1868  (7)
    • ♦ Andrew Decker Kills James Cheaney/Chaney
      Pulaski County. May 1868. 1 source.
      In August 1868, Decker was reportedly "in jail, awaiting trial by civil court" according to a Freedmen's Bureau report of known murders during the past year.

    • ♦ Regulators Order Seven to Leave Their Homes
      Stanford, Lincoln County. 7 August 1868. 1 source.
      See: Partial List of Ku-Klux Activities in Kentucky

    • ♦ Regulators Kill James W. Baker
      Glades, Pulaski County. August 1868. 3 sources.
      "The Frankfort Commonwealth learns that the Ku-Klux Klan invaded Pulaski county, Ky., from the vicinity of Crab Orchard, last week, killed James Baker and whipped Noah Blakenship, until life is despaired of, besides whipping several other Union men. "

    • ♦  Regulators Whip Noah M. Blankenship
      Glades, Pulaski County. August 1868. 3 sources.
      "I have been told by the citizens of the Glade precinct, that the murder of James W. Baker, and the whipping of Esquire N. M. Blankenship, deterred the republican party from voting at the November election their whole strength in that precinct. The terror commenced in the sections of country referred to just before the last August election, and continued until after the November election."
      See: Partial List of Ku-Klux Activities in Kentucky

    • ♦ Regulators Attack Residence, Several Occupants and One Regulator Killed
      Pulaski County near the Lincoln County line. 19 September 1868. 6 sources.
      A group of men, including Rodney Adams and Mack Adams, attack Stephen Cummins' house, killing Cummins and his daughter (one article says that a son was also killed). Rodney Adams was killed by Cummins in the fight. The attack on Cummins' was reportedly related to the killing of J. Q. Adams in or about February of 1866, in which they blamed Cummins as having a role. Mack Adams was also reportedly among the men who assassinated Bridgewater in 1867.

    • ♦♦ Regulators Attack Black Residences, One Regulator Killed, Two Wounded
      near Hanging Fork, Lincoln County. October 1868. 5 sources.
      "On Monday night last a party of several men, all supposed to be white, went to a negro cabin at Freetown, on the Hanging Fork ... near the water tank between [Stanford] and South Danville, for the purpose ... of inflicting a flogging upon an negro man for some alleged misconduct upon his part, we know not what. The assailing party were about to enter the cabin when the negro shot young John Masterson dead, shot young Cash, and, it is thought mortally wounded a young Mr. Coffey. It is thought the latter will recover, but the second, it is thought, will not." It's also reported the man who defended himself and another resident were then arrested. Soldiers guarded the jail to prevent them from being lynched. [I cannot seem to find what happened next with their case.]

    • ♦  Regulators Order Five to Leave their Homes
      Lee Schoolhouse, Pulaski County. October 1868. 1 source.
      William Logan reports to authorities that a Ku-Klux notice was posted on the Lee schoolhouse where his daughter teaches, located about a half mile from his residence, addressed to William Logan (himself), Flotius Logan (his son), Vincent Luster (his brother-in-law), Porter Burton (a close neighbor), and Thomas Baker (his wife's uncle), ordering them to leave the county under penalty of death.

  • --1869  (13)
    • ♦ [?][?] Kills [?] Comstock
      Pulaski County. 1869[?] 1 source.
      "About two years ago, a young man named Comstock, died mysteriously in Pulaski county... Recently, it has come to the knowledge of his mother, who resides in Louisville, that there is a very great probability that he died by the hands of violence. The attempt will be made to bring the guilty parties to trial."

    • ♦  Regulators Whip William Parker
      Lincoln County. January 1869. 1 source.
      See: Partial List of Ku-Klux Activities in Kentucky

    • ♦ Four Injured in Affray
      Somerset, Pulaski County. 23 January 1869. 1 source.
      "Monday last was our County Court day, and quite a large crowd assembled in town. Late in the day an affray took place, in which W. D. Carpenter was shot in the right breast slightly, H. Dugan severely, Fre [sic] Cundiff (accidental) slightly, and Fred Lee cut in the arm severely, but not considered dangerous."

    • ♦  Regulators Whip [?] Bayatt
      Stanford, Lincoln County. 12 March 1869. 1 source.
      See: Partial List of Ku-Klux Activities in Kentucky

    • ♦ [?][?] Kills Harrison J. Young
      Pulaski County. 2 June 1869. 2 sources.
      20 year-old white male teacher listed as murdered and robbed on the 1870 Census Mortality Schedule for Pulaski County. He is buried in the Mt. Gilliad Cemetery in Pulaski County. His headstone says he is the son of S. & A. Young, born Apr. 8, 1849 and died June 2, 1869.
      See: No. 3 on the 1870 Pulaski Co. Mortality Schedule, Pg 10

    • ♦  Regulators Whip Lucinda Green
      thirteen miles from Stanford, Lincoln County. June 1869. 3 sources.
      "Mrs. Lucinda Green, who came into Louisville the other day and reported ... that three weeks before the band had broken into her house at midnight in search of her husband, who served during the war in one of the Kentucky Union regiments, and whom they purposed to hang for his refusal to join their ranks. Fortunately, however, Green was not at home; the people in the house being Mrs. Green, her two children and a boy of 13. Several of the party rushed into her bedroom and ... hauled her out of bed under the idea that he had got Green. Despite her resistance, she was dragged from the house, and the party, in their rage at Green's absence; first drew pistols on her, but finally contented themselves by whipping her..."
      See: Partial List of Ku-Klux Activities in Kentucky

    • ♦ William Carrow[?], Reuben Cairwell[?], William Cairwell[?] Killed in Affray
      Wayne County. August 1869. 1 source.
      Not sure if they were all killed in the same affray, but they are all listed as having died in an August 1869 fight in the same voting district in Wayne County. William Carrow[?], 68 year-old married white male farmer; Reuben Cairwell [Carewell?], 25-year old married white male farmer; William Cairwell [Carewell?], 28-year old married white male farmer.
      See: No. 2, 6 & 7 on the 1870 Wayne Co. Mortality Schedule, Pg 4

    • ♦ Man Kills Sheriff and Wounds Town Marshal
      near Presbyterian church, Stanford, Lincoln County. 18 September 1869. 32 sources.
      "Col. T. W. Napier, Sheriff of Lincoln county, was killed, and Ed. Davidson, Marshal of Stanford, was mortally wounded last night by a drunken man by the name of Sam. Holmes. There was a meeting, the nature of which I did not learn, at the Odd Fellow's Lodge, and Holmes was creating a disturbance outside of the house. Sheriff Napier undertook to arrest him, and Davidson went to assist the Sheriff. Holmes resisted the officers and shot them both. He made his escape..."

    • ♦♦  Regulators Whip Man, Rape Woman
      Somerset, Pulaski County. Last week in October 1869. 1 source.
      "A party of men made an attack on some negroes, at Somerset, Ky., last week, beating an old man and committing a rape on a woman."

    • ♦ Regulators Kill George Tankesley
      Crab Orchard Springs, Lincoln County. First week in November 1869. 2 sources.
      "Near Crab Orchard Springs, Kentucky, Friday night, four men went to a house of ill-fame to tear it down, but finding some parties inside ready to defend it, opened fire with Spencer rifles and mortally wounded Geo. Tankesly, an inmate."
      See:Partial List of Ku-Klux Activities in Kentucky

    • ♦ Regulators Whip Allen Cooper
      Pulaski County. November 1869. 1 source.
      See:Partial List of Ku-Klux Activities in Kentucky

    • ♦ Three Killed in Gun Fight over Regulator Whipping
      Somerset, Pulaski County. Last week in November 1869. 4 sources.
      This gunfight was a response/result of the whipping of Allen Cooper that had occurred a few days/weeks before. Henry J. Dalton, 28 year-old white married male farmer listed as killed by Pistol Shot in Fray, and William Pleasants, 21 year-old white single male farmer listed as killed by Gun Shot in Fray, on the 1870 Census Mortality Schedule for Pulaski County. [?] Todd was also reportedly killed and James Pleasants badly wounded in the same gun fight.
      See: No. 7 on Pulaski Co. Mortality Schedule, Pg 5 and No. 3 on the 1870 Pulaski Co. Mortality Schedule, Pg 15

    • ♦ Regulators Kill Allen Cooper
      Adair County. 24 December 1869. 3 sources.
      "Still, in the pursuit of continually desiring peace, respecting the people's appeals and even willing therefore to appease the wrath of the lawless, Cooper's friends advised him, and he consented, to leave the county. He started with his family on the 23d of December. But when he was about twenty miles on the way, during the second day's journey, in the County of Adair, accompanied by only his wife and small children and a boy driving a wagon containing his scanty effects, as he walked behind--no doubt occupied with the sore reflection of an outraged freeman--he was shot dead from the assassin's ambush..."
      See:Partial List of Ku-Klux Activities in Kentucky



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      1850 - 1879 leads (my pending/drafts file)
      1850 - 1869 tangents






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