From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)
Hanmer, Margaret C. "Maggie"
(born: 1854 - died: December 11, 1899)Margaret Hanmer was the head cook at the Kentucky Governor's Mansion for 16 years. She served four Democratic governors, having arrived with Governor Luke P. Blackburn, 1879-1883. She next served Governor James Proctor Knott, 1883-1887; Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner, 1887-1891; and Governor John Young Brown, Sr., 1891-1895.
Margaret Hanmer was dismissed when Governor William O'Connell Bradley was elected in 1895. Margaret's husband Bob was a porter in the Governor's Office untill 1895 when he became a porter for the office in downtown Frankfort. Bob Hanmer had been enslaved to Captain Hanmer in Nashville, TN. Bob died in Louisville, KY, in July of 1898.
His wife, Margaret Hanmer was a cook for a Mrs. Marshall in Anchorage, KY, until her health fail and she moved to Louisville where she died in 1899. She had been living at 612 Rear Oak, according to the Kentucky Death Records [Ancestry]. Margaret Hanmer was buried at the Cave Hill Cemetery.
For more see "Cooked for governors," The Louisville Courier-Journal, 12/13/1899, p.6; "Gov. Bob," The Louisville Courier-Journal, 07/20/1898, p.5. [Their names are spelled "Hanmer" in the newspapers, and as "Margaret Hamner" in the Louisville death records.]