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Sarah "Sallie" Travis Bramlette (Adair County, KY, First Lady of Kentucky)

b. 1819 d. 1872-03-04

Adair County, Kentucky, resident and first lady of Kentucky. Tennessee native. Married to Thomas Elliott Bramlette in 1837. Mother of James T. Bramlette, William Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrine Bramlette. Resident of Clinton County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Clinton County in 1850. Household employed Matilda Cowan in Clinton County in 1850. First lady of Kentucky from 1863 to 1867.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District 1, p. 181A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District 1, p. 335.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Eighth Ward, p. 83B.

Lowell H. Harrison, “Bramlette, Thomas Elliott,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 112.

Ross A. Webb, “Thomas Elliott Bramlette,” in Kentucky’s Governors, ed. Lowell H. Harrison (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), p. 93.

U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Ancestry, Kentucky, 1863, Collection District 2, Division 3, Adair County, Columbia.

Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), Ancestry, Louisville, Deaths, 1872.

Citation

Bramlette, Sarah "Sallie" Travis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201410 (November 12, 2026).

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