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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-0001-004-0061 BR8-92

Williamstown, Grant County, Kentucky James Fisher Robinson (governor, state senator, businessman, attorney, and farmer) N001004 1800-10-04 1882-10-31 Categories: People

Twenty-second governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, banker, and legislator. Son of Jonathan Robinson and Jane Black Robinson. Married to Susan D. Mansell Robinson on December 26, 1821. Father of Emilie Jane Robinson and James F. Robinson, Jr. Married Willina S. Herndon Robinson on May 30, 1842. Father of Scott Herndon Robinson, John McCracken Robinson, George Sidney Robinson, Madison Johnson Robinson, Stephen Gano Robinson, Willa Ewing Robinson, Philip Eldon Robinson, and Stephen Gano Robinson. Educated at Forest Hill Academy and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Trustee of Georgetown College. President of the Farmers' Bank of Georgetown. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Owned thirty-five enslaved persons in 1860. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 3, 1861, to September 5, 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 16, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Governor of Kentucky from August 18, 1862, to September 1, 1863. Returned to practicing law and farming on retiring from politics in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266. John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. William Henry Engle, Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7. William P. Brumback (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) N00006438 1819? Categories: People

Grant County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Brumback. Father of Richard H. Brumback, Nancy J. Brumback, Zerilda Brumback, Elizabeth Ann Brumback, Julia Brumback, Susan Brumback, Ellen Brumback, Mary Brumback. Farmer in Boone County in 1850. Farmer in Grant County in 1860.

Relationships Social: James Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, carpenter) Social: William Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Thomas Renfro (Grant County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: A. E. Stone (Owen County, Kentucky, farmer.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boone, District 2 p. 183B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant, p. 958. KYR-0001-004-0059. A. E. Stone (Owen County, Kentucky, farmer.) N00006434 1832? Categories: People

Owen County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah W. Stone in Grant County on February 28, 1860. Farmer in Owen County in 1860.

Relationships Social: James Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, carpenter) Social: William Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: William P. Brumback (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Thomas Renfro (Grant County, Kentucky, resident)

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Grant County Marriages, Film # 001490815. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant, District 2, p. 247. Thomas Renfro (Grant County, Kentucky, resident) N00006435 Categories: People

Failed to appear at Grant Circuit Court in Grant County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: William P. Brumback (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: A. E. Stone (Owen County, Kentucky, farmer.) Social: William P. Brumback (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: A. E. Stone (Owen County, Kentucky, farmer.) Social: James Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, carpenter) Social: William Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, resident)

KYR-0001-004-0059. KYR-0001-004-0060. KYR-0001-004-0061. William Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, resident) N00006436 1841? Categories: People

Grant County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Son of James Harrison Rose and Sarah Rose. Married to Lucy Ann Baker Rose in Mercer County on May 14, 1863. Resident in Grant County in 1850. Resident in Grant County in 1860. Arrested for burglary with his father James Harrison Rose in Grant County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant, p. 317A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant, p. 896. KYR-0001-004-0061. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Grant County Marriages, Film #000191864. James Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, carpenter) N00006437 1813? Categories: People

Grant County, Kentucky, carpenter. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Rose. Father of William H. Rose, John F. Rose, Margaret A. Rose, Sarah H. Rose, James E. Rose, Charles R. Rose, Nancy F. Rose, Emma C. Rose. Carpenter in Grant County in 1850. Carpenter in Grant County in 1860. Arrested for burglary with his son William Harrison Rose in 1863.

Relationships Familial: William Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, resident)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant, p. 317A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant, p. 896. KYR-0001-004-0061. George Washington Craddock, Sr. (Hart County, Kentucky, attorney and newspaperman) N00001597 1814-06-07 1896-04-08 Categories: People

Hart County, Kentucky, attorney and newspaperman. Son of Jesse Craddock and Drusilla Earles Craddock. Married to Mary T. Murray Craddock on April 22, 1835. Father of Charles F. Craddock. Married to Harriet W. Theobald Craddock in January 1841. Father of Nannie T. Craddock, Laura Craddock, George Washington Craddock, Jr., Thomas J. Craddock, Samuel T. Craddock, and Hallie Craddock. Deputy Clerk of the Hart County Court and Hart Circuit Court in 1830. Admitted to the bar in 1835. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1840 to 1842. Member of the Whig Party. Partner of James Harlan in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1842. Attorney in Frankfort in 1850 and 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in 1850 and six in 1860. Co-owner of the Democratic newspaper Kentucky Yeoman, with S. I. M. Major, during the Civil War.

Relationships Political: Tranedo Bass (Barren County, KY, resident imprisoned in the KY State Penitentiary)

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 88-90. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 332.Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 2, p. 52A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 110. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 17. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 46. “Passed Away: Death of the Venerable Judge G. W. Craddock,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), April 9, 1896, p. 3. W. T. Simmons (Grant County, Kentucky, attorney) N00003490 1826? Categories: People

Grant County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Eugenia C. Price Grant on May 10, 1854. Attorney in Grant County in 1863.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: George Washington Craddock, Sr. (Hart County, Kentucky, attorney and newspaperman)

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Grant County, KY, June and July 1863, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994054, Scott County Marriages, p. unknown. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Grant Circuit Court O00000384 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 8th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Elijah F. Nuttall and George C. Drane. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): P. U. Major and John L. Scott. Clerk(s): William Smith and N. H. Jeffers.

Relationships Legal: William Duncan (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John D. Duncan (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Isaac Duncan (Grant County) Legal: Overton P. Billiter (Grant County carpenter) Legal: Thomas A. Franklin (Grant County, KY, farmer, postmaster, & county court clerk) Legal: William P. Brumback (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: William Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Thomas Renfro (Grant County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: A. E. Stone (Owen County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: John Marksberry (Grant County, Kentucky, sheriff) Economic: Nathan H. Jeffers (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Thomas Iliff (Grant County, Kentucky, blacksmith) Political: Thomas A. Franklin (Grant County, KY, farmer, postmaster, & county court clerk) Political: William Smith (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit ct clerk) Political: Mathew Burnett (Judge of Grant County Court) Political: Winston T. Simmons (Grant County, KY, attorney) Legal: John W. Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John C. L. Neal (Owen County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: William S. Rankin (Grant County, KY, State Rep) Legal: Nathan H. Jeffers (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Williamstown, Grant County, Kentucky 1863-08-26 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Williamstown August 26th 1863 To his Excellency James F. Robinson Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky --

Inclosed I send you an affidavit of W P Brumback -- Together with a judgment in favor of the commonwealth vs him ^Stone^ for $500 as the sureties in a bond for the appearance of Thomas Renfro's appearance, in the Grant circuit court to be tried for a felony -- The Bond was taken by the judge of the County court after he had been committed by the justices & before the ruling of the Circuit Court -- Renfro faled to appear & the judgment mentioned is the result -- Now the object of this communication is to get you to remit so much of the judgement as you can -- The facts are as follows

Thomas Renfro -- W H Rose & J H Rose were arrested by the same warrant charged with Burglary Renfro gave the Bail the twoo Roses remained in Jail until the next term of the Circuit Court The Grand Jury having failed to find an Indictment against either of them they were by the court discharged -- No Indictment was found against Renfro & if he had been in jail he would have been discharged The person whose store house had been broken open became satisfied between the exam-

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ining court & the circuit court that he was mistaken in relation to the Guilt of Renfro & the Roses & failed to prosecute them further in fact he learn that a squad of Rebels took his goods a they were on their way to the southern army and that Renfro & the Roses were innocent These are the facts The commonwealths atty will recollect them as detailed to him when here -- Brumback & stone can pay the $500 but will greatly oppress them they are both poor men with Families dependent upon them I believe you would under the circumstances be justified in remitting the Judgment except the percent going to the Commonwealths Atty -- I sent a copy of the judgment & others papers some time ago to G W Craddock asking him to present them to you but have not heard from the papers I hope you will find that the facts in this case commend themselves to your clemency

I am your obt servt

W, T, Simmons