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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-0001-004-0080 BR8-118 to BR8-119

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. George A. Bowyer (Lexington, Fayette County, KY, merchant tailor) N00006622 1814-12-28 1900-10-17 Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, tailor and merchant tailor. Virginia native. Married to Mary Poindexter Bowyer. Father of George Bowyer, Clarance Bowyer, Charles Bowyer, Lution Bowyer, and Earnest Bowyer. Owned two enslaved persons in Tailor in Fayette County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Lexington in 1850. Merchant tailor in Lexington in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Winford Green Bailey (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge) Legal: John C. Cooper (Lincoln County, Kentucky, state rep and county attorney) Legal: Lincoln County Court Legal: Fayette County Court Legal: Thomas Peyton Hill (Lincoln County, Kentucky, attorney)

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 94. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 206B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 614. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, pp. 523-524. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 1, p. 460B. Williams & Co., Compilers, Williams' Lexington City Directory for 1864-5, (Lexington, KY, 1864), 112. Find A Grave, "George Bowyer (1814-1900)," Memorial 83684386, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83684386 (accessed March 10, 2020). Winford Green Bailey (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge) N00006607 1803-03-16 1883-04-19 Categories: People

Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge. Lincoln County, Kentucky, native. Son of Elijah Bailey. Married to Catherine J. Embry Bailey in 1839. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for Lincoln County in 1834 and 1835. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Lincoln County and Garrard County, Kentucky, from 1840 to 1844. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in 1860. Judge of the Lincoln County Court in 1862.

Relationships Legal: Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant) Political: Simon E. Higgins (Crab Orchard, Kentucky, postmaster, merchant and justice of the peace)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District No. 2, p. 302B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District No. 2, p. 261. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 5. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 2. Find A Grave, "Winford Green Bailey (1803-1883)," Memorial #32023772, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32023772 (accessed May 26, 2017). "Deaths: Judge Winfred G. Baily," Semi-weekly Interior Journal (Stanford, Ky.), April 20, 1883, p. 3. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, _History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1878), p. 468. Folklife Archives, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, "Bailey, Winford Green, 1803-1883 (SC 2243)" (2010). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 1287 (http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlscmssfin_aid/1287). John C. Cooper (Lincoln County, Kentucky, state rep and county attorney) N00006623 1833 1905 Categories: People

Lincoln County, Kentucky, attorney, county attorney, and politician. Lincoln County, Kentucky, native. Married to Pauline Karr Cooper in Madison County, Kentucky, on November 12, 1861. Father of Lucy A. Cooper and Fannie P. Cooper. Attorney in Lincoln County in 1860. County attorney for Lincoln County from 1861 to 1863. Member of the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Lincoln County from 1861 to 1863.

Relationships Political: Winford Green Bailey (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge) Legal: Lincoln County Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 8. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 91B, 92A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Madison County Marriages, Film #000183302. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Find A Grave, "John C. Cooper (1833-1905)," Memorial #27321242, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27321242 (accessed July 1, 2019). Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7020453, Madison County Deaths, File #15889. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 468. KYR-0001-004-0080. 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. 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. Lincoln County, Kentucky P00005395 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Stanford, Kentucky.

37.5312, -84.6619 Allan R. Leach, "Lincoln County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001), p. 557-58. "Stanford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 2, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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/. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). 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. Fayette County Court O00000621 Categories: Organizations

Located in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Charles D. Carr. Clerk(s): Sanders D. Bruce, Joseph R. Gross, Ernest Brennan, and A. G. Hunt.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. United States Army O00001186 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Relationships Military: James Olney (possible U. S. soldier) Military: Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier) Military: Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) Military: 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863) Military: Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Economic: William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer) Political: Government of the United States of America Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Military: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Military: John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army Military: United States War Department Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) Military: [Unknown] Johnson () Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865) Military: Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO) Military: Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. ) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander) Military: Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.) Military: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

Richard W. Stewart, ed. American Military History (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009). Lincoln County Court O00000652 Categories: Organizations

Located in Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailer, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Winford Green Bailey. Clerk(s): Ransom Carson.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Lincoln County, Kentucky 1863-09-01 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 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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Septr. the 1st 1863 To His Excellency

Thomas. E. Bramlette Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner George A Bowyer would respectfully represent that he is a loyal citizen of the county of Fayette where he has resided for 25 years last past. That at the July term of the Fayatte county court he procured a license and paid tax on same in the court aforesaid to peddle merchandise in the county of Lincoln. his ojbject being to supply the officers of the Federal army with clothing,- he procured his clothing and went to the county of Lincoln aforesaid but failed to have his license countersigned as the law directs by the Clerk of the Lincoln County court; whereupon he was arrested tried be befor His Honor W. G. Bailey Judge of the Lincoln County Court and fined one hundred dollars, which amount he deposited with the Judge aforesaid, to be held by him until the decision of your Excellency in this matter. Now your Petitioner states that he had paid the taxes due to the state of Kentucky upon his license before he arrived in the county of Lincoln with his goods, and did not defraud the state out of one cent of her dues; nor did he intend to do so, having paid for his license before leaving the city of Lexington

He thefore prays your Excellency to m repmit that portion of said fine which would otherwise vest in the Commonwealth- believing the same

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would be just between the state of Kentucky and Petitioner

Respectfully your Obedient servant George A. Bowyer

Lincoln County Kentucky

I certify that I am the prosecuting Attorney for said County and was present and prosecuted Said Geo A. Boywyeir before the Judge of Lincoln County court. The statements made by him in the above Petition are substantially true. and I think this a case which merrits your clemency. Sept 1st 1863

John C Cooper, County Atty

The undersigned Judge of the Lincoln County Court presided in the trial of the Petitioner and Know that the facts stated in the Petition are ^substantially true from the fine of the License^ true and that in the opinion of the undersigned his cause is one Meriting Executive clemency- & I ask for him the same 1st September 1863

Respectfully &c W G Bailey J L C C

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His Excellency Gov Bramlette

If the within stated fine is remitted his Excellency Governor Bramlette will forward the same to me at Stanford & I will draw the money & forward to the Petitioner I am atto for Bowyer

Faithfully &c T, P, Hill

Sept 5th 1863 Remit all except costs &C Tho E Bramlette

Lincoln County Ct. $100 -- George A Bowyer Remitted 5th Sept 1863.