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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-0001-004-0069 BR8-101

Stanford, Lincoln 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. Michael Henry Owsley (Cumberland County, Kentucky, attorney, capt & major in 1st & 5th Cav (USA)) N00002811 1834-12-10 1891 Categories: People

Cumberland County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County native. Son of Joel Owsley and Mary Owsley. Married to Ellen Letcher Owsley in 1865. Graduate of Centre College in 1854. Graduate of the University of Louisville in 1856. Student in Cumberland County in 1850. Household owned twenty-three enslaved persons in Cumberland County in 1850. Attorney in Cumberland County in 1860. Served in the 1st Regiment Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.A.) as captain in 1861. Served in the 5th Regiment Kentucky Cavalry as major from March 31, 1862, to September 5, 1862. Commonwealth's attorney for the Sixth Judicial District from 1864 to 1868.

Relationships Legal: Budd Jones () Legal: Russell Circuit Court Legal: Lincoln Circuit Court Legal: William Dollins, Sr. (Garrard County, Kentucky, overseer and farmer) Legal: Garrard Circuit Court Legal: John H. Kennedy (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant) Political: John H. Kennedy (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant) Legal: Augden Bridgewater (Lincoln County, Kentucky, miller) Legal: Jennie Adams (Lincoln County ) Political: Edward Mitchell (Boyle County, Kentucky, clerk and agent for Liverpool and London) Social: Thomas Peyton Hill (Lincoln County, Kentucky, attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Burkesville, p. 279B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland Division, p. 371 (p. 2 of microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Burkesville, District 1, p. 659. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, District 3, p. 432B. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 34-35 and 108-09. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 940. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0009. John J. McAfee, Kentucky Politicians. Sketches of Representative Corncrackers and other Miscellany (Louisville, KY: The Courier Journal Job Printing Company, 1886), 128-30. Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, vol. 2, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903), 134. Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans who served between 1861 and 1900, Civil War Pensions Index, roll no. 171. “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), 10. “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), 347-50. Find A Grave, "Judge Michael Henry Owsley (1834-1891)," Memorial #91718641, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91718641 (accessed May 25, 2017). Thomas Peyton Hill (Lincoln County, Kentucky, attorney) N00006557 1826-08-30 1908 Categories: People

Lincoln County, Kentucky, attorney. Pulaski County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas O. Hill and Louisa Peyton Hill. Married to Maria A. Peyton Hill. Father of Zuritha L. Hill, Mary "Mollie" Hill, Anna M. Hill, Alfred A. Hill, Thomas P. Hill, W. Bailey Hill, and Fannie F. Hill. Educated at St. Mary's College in Marion, Kentucky. Studied law under John Kincaid. Attorney in Wayne County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Wayne County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1852. Attorney in Lincoln County in 1860. Law partners with J. W. Alcorn from 1865 to 1867.

Relationships Political: Winford Green Bailey (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge) Political: Garland A. Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, Division No. 1, p. 289B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, Division 1, p. 105. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 16. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 96B. Find A Grave, "Thomas Peyton Hill (1826-1908)," Memorial #41316140, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41316140 (accessed July 2, 2019). The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), p. 380. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), pp. 539-40. Interior Journal (Stanford, Ky.), March 2, 1909, p. 1. Kentucky Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates, KDLA: Mason County Deaths, 1931, file no. 27529. Stanford, Kentucky P00008733 Categories: Places

Seat of Lincoln County, Kentucky.

37.5312, -84.6619 Allan R. Leach, "Stanford" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 846. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 281. "Stanford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 2, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Lincoln Circuit Court O00000417 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 6th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Thomas E. Bramlette and Fontaine T. Fox. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Ephraim L. Vanwinkle and Michael H. Owsley. Clerk(s): George H. McKinney, James Huffman, and S. S. McRoberts.

Relationships Economic: Michael Henry Owsley (Cumberland County, Kentucky, attorney, capt & major in 1st & 5th Cav (USA)) Economic: Harrison P. Middleton (Lincoln County, KY, sheriff and farmer )

“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. Stanford & Shelby's Meeting House Turnpike O00012175 Categories: Organizations

Turnpike company organized in Lincoln County, Kentucky. Indicted by attorney M. H. Owsley in Lincoln Circuit Court for lack of repair in September 1863.

Relationships Legal: Lincoln Circuit Court Political: Thomas Peyton Hill (Lincoln County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Michael Henry Owsley (Cumberland County, Kentucky, attorney, capt & major in 1st & 5th Cav (USA))

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Stanford September 1863 --

Dear Governor

Our Mutual friend M H Owsly Indicted one of our Neighbourhood Turnpikes and They confessed Jugement for $100 -- We think the part due the Conth should be remitted as it is impossible to keep the Roads in repair during their use by the Federal Wagons- We know the whole neighbourhood desires the fine remitted and Justice demands it

Respectfully &c T. P. Hall

N B Dear Gov

A few individuals bult the road at considerable expense to them, it is merely a neighborhood road and pays nothing to the stock holders, It was indicted with other roads for being out of repair. Under the peculiar circumstances and state of the country I think ^the^ stockholders entitled to the remission

Very respictfully

P S. The style of the prosecution is the Commonwealth & The Stanford & Shelby's meeting house turnpike road

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Lincoln Cir Ct vs S. & S. Turnpike $100 -- Remitted 9th Oct /63