Prisoners from Sneed's with Southeast Kentucky connections© from issue IV/1 of Harlan Footprints extracted & annotated by Holly Timm Particularly prior to 1850, it is very difficult to discover much about ordinary good people. Unless an individual was a prominent figure, goodness left a very little trail to follow. On the other hand, trouble- makers tended to leave records behind, when they divorced, when they were taken to court and went several times to jail. Let it also be noted that Southeast Kentucky's mountains seemed to have held an attraction for men (women) who, to put it politely, marched to a beat of a different drum. SNEED'S HISTORY of the KENTUCKY PENITENTIARY lists convicts sent to the State Penitentiary usually mentioning the county from which they had been sent. You may not have had a "black sheep ancestor" but, he may have had a relative on the list. Below is a list of prisioner's from eastern Kentucky counties: ALEXANDER, Argus in 1815 for 2 yrs for felony-from Knox County ALEXANDER, Jesse in 1815 for 2 yrs for felony-from Knox County ALEXANDER, T in 1807 for 2 yrs for larceny-from Knox County BARNETT, John in 1822 for 6 yrs BRYANT,John in 1820 for 4 yrs for felony from Harlan County BROWN, Henry in 1832 for 2 yrs, died of cholera BURTON,Jesse in 1812 for 5 yrs for felony-from Clay County CARTER,Eli in 1834 for 2 yrs for felony CARTER, Polly in 1819 for 10 yrs, pardoned CLARK,Abe in 1824 for 4 yrs CLARK,Rhuben in 1820 for 2 yrs, pardoned-from Floyd County CLAY, John in 1824 for 5 yrs- died COLLETT, O in 1815 for 6 yrs for murder- from Knox County COTTRELL,Presly in 1834 for 1 yr for larceny COX,Jo in 1820 for 4 yrs, pardoned in 1821 COX, Nathan in 1833 for 1 yr and 1 day for felony DANIEL,John in 1829 for 2 yrs, pardoned, for perjury-from Harlan County DIXON, AH in 1830 for 1 yr DRURY, John in 1819 for 1 yr EDWARDS,James in 1828 for 8 yrs FREEMAN,John in 1825 for 2 yrs for felony two terms-from Knox County FRENCH,Samuel in 1833 for 2 yrs GAMBLE,Jack in 1816 for 1 yr for felony-from Clay County GARLAND, Ambrose in 1826 for 2 yrs for murder-from Whitley County GARLAND, Samuel in 1826 for 4 yrs for murder-from Whitley County GARRISON, John in 1823 for 4 yrs, escaped in 1824 GOODIN,John in 1825 for 2 yrs for murder,pardoned -from Knox County GRAINING,John B in 1815 for 5 yrs for horse stealing -from Knox County *escaped, retaken, pardoned GRAY, PM in 1834 for 1 yr for larceny GREEN, Robert in 1819 for 1 yr and 10 days GREEN, Robert in 1822 for 4 yrs HALL, Robert in 1833 for 5 yrs, deceased HALL, William in 1821 for 3 yrs, pardoned in 1821 HARRIS, Ben in 1823 for 4 yrs, escaped HOWARD, Peter in 1825 for 2 yrs JACKSON, Andrew in 1819 for 4 yrs, escaped JACKSON, James in 1821 for 3 yrs JOHNSON, James in 1819 for 6 yrs, pardoned in 1820 JOHNSON, James T in 1819 for 3 yrs JOHNSTON, Anderson in 1824 for 5 yrs, pardoned in 1827 JOHNSTON, Ed in 1823 for 4 yrs, "killed by Bradley" * Thomas Bradley was a convict sentenced in 1825 for 4 yrs with a note that he was hung for murder of Edmund Johnson on August 25, 1826. JONES,Joseph in 1833 for 12 yrs JONES,Sameul in 1824 for 3 yrs JONES, William P in 1834 for 1 yr for counterfeiting LANE, Benjamin in 1831 for 1 yr LEE, Charles in 1834 for 3 yrs, died in 1837, for felony LEWIS, George in 1824 for 1 yr died in 1825 LEWIS, Job in 1833 for 5 yrs LEWIS, Zach in 1823 for 4 yrs, pardoned in 1825 LINN,Jacob in 1825 for 1 yr, pardoned for larceny-from Clay County LINN, Jacob in 1826 for 4 yrs MARKS, Jacob in 1834 for 2 yrs MARSHALL, William in 1822 for 4 yrs for horse stealing, pardoned in 1825-from Clay County MOSLEY, M in 1816 for 2 yrs for felony-from Knox County PATTERSON, Mike in 1822 for 4 yrs for horse stealing, escaped-from Clay County ROBERTSON, Addison in 1820 for 1 yr ROBERTSON, Joseph in 1821 for 4 yrs ROWERK(Roark?), William in 1823 for 1 yr and 2 months SCOTT, David in 1823 for 1 yr, pardoned SCOTT, William in 1818 for 1 yr and 6 months SIMPSON, John in 1829 for 2 yrs SKUNE,M in 1817 for 3 yrs for burgarly, pardoned in 1817-from Knox County SPONG, John in 1818 for 1 yr for counterfeiting-from Floyd County STEWART, Dudley in 1831 for 2 yrs for felony -from Clay County THOMAS, Madison in 1830 for 4 yrs, pardoned TODD, John in 1808 for 2 yrs for subordination-from Knox County TULFORD,AR in 1815 for 2 yrs for felony-from Clay County VANNOY, William in 1812 for 2 yrs for felony-from Knox County WILDER, Reason in 1817 for 4 yrs for horse stealing-from Knox County YOUNG, James in 1834 for 3 yrs for felony PRISON OUTFIT: At right is a sketch from Sneed's History of an early 19th century convict. The first prison outfit as adopted by the instition in 1800 is descibed as "in summer season country linen for the shirts, overalls for the pants and hunting shirts; the linen to be checked with deep yellow and diamonds one inch square; the hunting shirts to reach below the hips. In the winter, suits of country linsey, same make and figure, with an under jacket coat, shoes, socks, a hat made of leather with a flat crown with a brim 3 inches wide. The wearing apparel for the females to be of the same materials an dfigure as that for males and made into petticoats and jackcoats."

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