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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0006 BR8-7 to BR8-8

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky Thomas Elliott Bramlette (KY governor 1863-67, atty, D.A., col 3rd KY Inf) N001000 1817-01-03 1875-01-12 Categories: People

Twenty-third governor of Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sallie Travis Bramlette in September 1837. Father of James T. Bramlette, William L. Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrina Bell Bramlette. Practiced law in Clinton County, Kentucky, and Columbia, Kentucky. Represented Cumberland and Clinton counties in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Commonwealth's attorney of the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Circuit judge of the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1861. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Served as colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1861 to 1862. District attorney of the United States District Court for Kentucky in 1863. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to September 3, 1867. Owned law firm of Bramlette & Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B. Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97 Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13. James Maloy (Fayette Co, KY, mule thief) N00002068 Categories: People

Indicted by the Fayette Circuit Court for mule stealing in 1863.

Relationships Social: B. F. Barnes (Fayette Co, KY, mule stealer)

KYR-0001-004-0006. KYR-0001-029-0546. B. F. Barnes (Fayette Co, KY, mule stealer) N00002069 Categories: People

Indicted by the Fayette Circuit Court for mule stealing in 1863.

Relationships Legal: George Washington Brand (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer and bank director) Legal: William H. Lusby (Fayette County, Kentucky, marshal and jailer) Political: William H. Lusby (Fayette County, Kentucky, marshal and jailer)

KYR-0001-004-0006. KYR-0001-029-0546. William H. Lusby (Fayette County, Kentucky, marshal and jailer) N00002067 1817-10-29 1886-11-06 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, marshal and jailer. Kentucky native. Married to Matilda B. Lusby. Father of Thomas E. Lusby, Letcher Lusby, William S. Lusby, Henry Lusby, Walter Lusby, and Harrod Lusby. Cabinet maker in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. City marshal in Lexington in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Lexington in 1860. Jailer of the Fayette County Court in Lexington in 1863.

Relationships Legal: James Maloy (Fayette Co, KY, mule thief) Legal: B. F. Barnes (Fayette Co, KY, mule stealer) Political: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Economic: Fayette County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 131B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 377. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p.450. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 255B. Find A Grave, "William Henry Lusby (1817-1886)," Memorial #21632606, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21632606 (accessed May 19, 2017). KYR-0001-029-0546. Lexington, Kentucky P001002 Categories: Places

Seat of Fayette County, Kentucky.

38.0406, -84.5037 John D. Wright, "Lexington (City)," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 549-51. "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Covington, Kentucky P00000936 Categories: Places

Seat of Kenton County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River and Licking River.

Relationships Economic: John R. Ricke (Covington, Kentucky, city clerk) Economic: Andrew H. Herod (Kenton County, Kentucky, jailer) Economic: C. A. Preston (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and mayor)

39.0837, -84.5086 "Covington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. John E. Burns, "Covington," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 236. Fayette County, Kentucky P001031 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Lexington.

38.0406, -84.5037 "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 99. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1863-09-08 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Lexington Sep. 8. 1863 Gov T. E. Bramlett Dear Sir

James Maloy arrested some months since for stealing 3 horses from this County, was indicted by the Grand Jury & confined in Jail. In July he formed a conspiracy with several others to Break jail. He & another prisoner named Barnes, since captured, & convicted on a similar charge succeeded in making their escape under very agravating circumstances, for in my resisting their attemptd escape I was very badly injured myself

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not however until I had succeeded in Killing one & dangerously wounding another of the party. I offered a reward of $50 for his arrest, which is as much as I can afford being a poor man.

I now have information from the Marshal of Covington that if an additional reward of $50 is offered he can be captured & brought to justice.

Maloy is a notorious thief and is one of a gang who have been extensively engaged in Horse stealing in this region for months He should be made an example of & I write to request you

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to offer a reward of $50 on the part of the state

Please answer by Telle Telligraph --

Most Respectfully

W. H. Lusby

Jailor Fayette Co