1834 Shepherdsville Town Trustees Election

We discovered in Bullitt County Deed Book H, pages 91-92, the following election results.

The candidates are listed below. The capital letter preceding each name is used to identify him in the voting chart below. Note the one mistake the clerk made.

A. N. C. Summers
B. Francis Maraman
C. George F. Pope
D. Abraham Field
E. H. C. M. Cartmell
F. Rufus K. Summers
G. William R. Grigsby
H. Robert F. Samuels
I. William Congrove

We have attempted to duplicate the chart as it was written in the deed book. It appears that each voter announced his choices, and the election clerk kept a running total as each voter's choices were listed.

Polls of an election held at the court house in Shepherdsville on Monday the fourth day of August 1834 to elect and choose five suitible persons to act as trustees for the town of Shepherdsville for the year commencing on this day, to-wit.

Voters' Names	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
W. B. Holsclaw	1	-	-	-	1	1	1	1	-
George F. Pope	2	1	-	1	-	2	2	-	-
J. W. Caldwell	3	-	1	2	-	3	3	-	-
Thomas Shain	4	-	-	-	2	4	4	2	-
Lorenzo Hogland	5	-	-	-	3	5	5	3	-
Frederic Travis	6	-	-	-	4	6	6	4	-
D. B. Abernathy	7	-	-	-	5	7	7	5	-
Henry F. Kalfus	8	2	-	3	6	-	8	-	-
E. W. Bridwell	9	-	-	-	7	8	9	6	-
E. W. Simmons	10	-	-	4	8	9	-	7	-
Jacob Troutman	11	-	2	5	-	10	10	-	-
James Holmes	12	-	3	-	9	-	11	8	-
R. P. Simmons	13	3	-	6	10	-	12	-	-
F. Maraman	14	-	4	7	-	11	13	-	-
R. K. Summers	15	-	4	-	11	-	14	9	-
William Evans	16	4	5	8	-	12	-	-	-
William Congrove	17	5	-	9	-	13	15	-	-
Alfred Simmons	18	6	6	10	-	14	-	-	-
H. J. Craycroft	19	7	-	11	-	15	16	-	-
Thomas C. Craycroft	20	8	-	12	-	16	17	-	-
N. C. Summers	-	9	-	-	12	17	18	10	-
Wilford Lee	21	10	-	13	-	-	19	11	-
William Arnold	22	-	-	-	13	18	20	12	-
Gabriel Westfall	23	-	-	-	14	19	21	13	-
S. D. Murray	24	-	7	-	-	20	22	14	-
A. Field	25	11	-	-	15	-	23	-	1
John Chaddic Jr.	26	-	8	14	-	21	24	-	-
Isaac Hornbeck	27	-	-	-	16	-	25	15	2
John H. Hendrick	28	-	-	-	17	22	-	16	3
TOTAL	28	11	8	14	17	22	25	16	3

I Thomas W. Riley, clerk of the Board of Trustees for the town of Shepherdsville do certify that on the 4 day of August 1834 I held an election at the courthouse in Shepherdsville for the purpose of choosing five fit persons to act as trustees for the said town until their successors shall be elected and qualified, of which the foregoing is a true poll by which it appears that Noah C. Summers, Henry C. M. Cartmell, Rufus K. Summers, William R. Grigsby and Robert F. Samuels have the highest number of votes, are declared duly elected. Given under my hand this 4th day of August 1834. (signed) T. W. Riley, Clerk, Board Trustees, Shepherdsville.

Images of the deed pages are shown below.

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