Cohabitation between the white and black races was, at best, frowned upon in early Kentucky, but what happened if the union produced a child? Was that child born free or a slave?
The status of the child followed that of the mother. If the mother was a slave, the child was a slave, but, if the mother was white, the child was considered to be free. The following entries, found in Union County, Kentucky Court Order Book C, under the date of 18 January 1836, illustrate this situation.
"On motion of Nathaniel Vincent a mulatto of the age of Thirty two years came into court and proved by John N. Buckman and Clement M. Buckman that he the sd. Nathaniel has resided in this county for Eighteen years past that they had been well acquainted with the sd. Nathaniel and that his mother was a white woman and that Nathaniel was born free. Whereupon it was ordered that the clerk of this [court] give Nathaniel a certificate stating that he is a free man ..."
The next entry was identical except it was for John Vincent, age twenty seven.
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Tombstone Tuesday - Walter & Hattie Clements
Walter L. Clements
Jan. 1, 1857
Jan. 11, 1900
Hattie P. Clements
Hattie P. Clements
1857 - 1931
Buried at St. Ann's Catholic Church Cemetery, Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 13 February 2009.
The death certificate of Hattie Clements shows she was born 13 November 1856 and died 31 October 1931 in Union County. Her parents were listed as Geo. N. Proctor and Mary Buckman.
The 1880 Union County census shows Walter L. and Hattie Clements and their infant son, Eugene, were living in the household of his parents, Walter and Martha Clements in Morganfield Precinct.
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