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State of Missouri v. Celia, a Slave was an 1855 murder trial held in the Circuit Court of Callaway County, Missouri, in which an enslaved woman named Celia was tried for the first-degree murder of her owner, Robert Newsom. Celia was convicted by a jury of twelve white men [1] and sentenced to death. An appeal of the conviction was denied by the Supreme Court of Missouri in December 1855, [2 ...
Celia (slave) Celia (c. 1835 - December 21, 1855) was a slave found guilty of the first-degree murder of Robert Newsom, her master, in Callaway County, Missouri. Her defense team, led by John Jameson, argued an affirmative defense: Celia killed Robert Newsom by accident in self-defense to stop Newsom from raping her, which was a controversial ...
Austin Augustus King. Preceded by. Abraham McClellan. Succeeded by. Alfred William Morrison. Peter Garland Glover (January 14, 1792 – October 27, 1851) was a U.S. politician from Missouri . He was born in Buckingham County, Virginia, and later moved with his family to Callaway County, Missouri. From 1830 to 1832, he served as a county judge.
Callaway County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States Census, the county's population was 44,283. [1] Its county seat is Fulton. [2] With a border formed by the Missouri River, the county was organized November 25, 1820, and named for Captain James Callaway, grandson of Daniel Boone. [3] The county has been historically referred to as "The Kingdom of ...
Early life Letter, from Benjamin Thomas Hardin, Kansas City, Jackson County to David Rowland Francis, November 11, 1890 recommending George Bennett MacFarlane for the Missouri Supreme Court. Missouri State Archives. MacFarlane was born in Callaway County, Missouri, on January 21, 1837, to George and Catherine Bennett.
List of judges for United States district courts in Missouri. James H. Peck served the District of Missouri beginning the first year it became a state. Samuel Treat was the first judge to serve Missouri's Eastern District. William H. Webster was the most recent judge to be elevated from the Eastern District of Missouri to the Eighth Circuit.
On Dec. 23, 2006, Dorsey grabbed his cousin's shotgun and fatally shot her and her husband in their Callaway County residence. Sarah Bonnie and Ben Bonnie drove him to the home for the night after ...
The Kingdom of Callaway was a county in Missouri that did not agree with the politics of either side in the American Civil War. As a result, it went on its own for a time. What made Callaway unique was that the Union general John B. Henderson signed a peace treaty with the Kingdom in October 1861, thus lending legitimacy to its existence.