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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-0001-004-0098 BR8-146 to BR8-147

Andrew J. Burton (Hickman County, KY, hotel/tavern keeper) N00006778 1815? Categories: People

Clinton, Kentucky, hotelkeeper and tavern keeper. Tennessee native. Married to Susan E. Burton. Father of Susan E. Burton, Isham S. Burton, and A. J. Burton. Hotelkeeper in Hickman County in 1860. Tavern keeper in Hickman County in 1861.

Relationships Legal: Francis M. Ray (Hickman County, KY, attorney) Legal: George T. Barret (Hickman County, KY, attorney) Legal: Andrew R. Boon (Graves County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: Edwin R. Ray (Hickman County, KY, Court clerk and attorney) Legal: William F. Boone (Hickman County, Kentucky, judge) Legal: S. H. Caldwell (Hickman Co., KY, attorney) Legal: Joseph M. Bigger (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: Philip D. Yeiser (Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) Legal: Charles S. Marshall (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Clinton, p. 498. KYR-0001-004-0098. William F. Boone (Hickman County, Kentucky, judge) N00006773 1826-11-12 1901-01-01 Categories: People

Hickman County, Kentucky, judge. Davidson County, Tennessee, native. Married to Agnes J. Alloway Boone in 1848. Father of Thomas E. Boone, Bryant A. Boone, Frances E. Boone, James A. Boone, Daniel S. Boone, Sallie W. Boone, Walter P. Boone, William F. Boone, Thomas L. Boone, Joseph E. Boone, and John C. Boone. Judge of the Hickman County Court in 1860.

Relationships Political: George Twyman Wood (Hart County, Kentucky, court clerk and politician.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Clinton, pp. 502-03. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, p. 387A. Ella Hazel Atterbury Spraker, “Samuel Moody Grubbs, a descendant of the Boone Family,”The Boone family; a genealogical history of the descendants of George and Mary Boone who came to America in 1717, (Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Company Publishers, 1922) 475. “William Felton Boone (1791-1865)," Find A Grave, Memorial 152123808, accessed August 27, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152123808. Charles S. Marshall (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) N00002214 1821-01-19 1896-11-13 Categories: People

Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas A. Marshall. Married to Emily V. Corbett Marshall in 1848. Father of Susan Marshall, Mary Marshall, Thomas C. Marshall, Lucey E. Marshall, Jacob Marshall, and Ann Marshall. Graduated from the Law Department of Transylvania University in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1842. Attorney in McCracken County, Kentucky, in 1850. Elected county attorney of Ballard County in 1856. Attorney in Ballard County in 1860. Circuit judge of the First Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1867.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: John Eaker, Sr. (Graves County, Kentucky, state senator, state representative, and farmer) Legal: Arthur Gardner (Graves County, Kentucky, saddler, postmaster, railroad agent, and trader) Legal: Dorrell Newton Bradley (Graves County, Kentucky, tobacconist) Legal: William A. Turner (Graves County, Kentucky, student, farmer, circuit court clerk, and county clerk) Legal: Thomas Franklin Beadles (Graves County, Kentucky, student and clerk) Legal: Philip D. Yeiser (Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) Economic: Fulton Circuit Court Political: Edward Irwin Bullock (Fulton and Hickman County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Hickman Circuit Court Social: Thomas J. Juett (Ballard County, Kentucky, saddler and postmaster) Social: M. Murray (Ballard Co., Ky, justice of the peace)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah and Suburbs, p. 160A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Blandville, p. 561. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, p. 139A. "A Good Man Gone," Daily Missoulian (Missoula, MT), November 14, 1896, p. 1. "C.S. Marshall Dead," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), November 14, 1896, p. 2. Philip D. Yeiser (Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) N00002498 1817-11-14 1886-12-02 Categories: People

Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney. Garrard County, Kentucky, native. Son of George Yeiser and Margaret M. Yeiser. Married to Ellen Durham Yeiser. Father of David A. Yeiser. Married to Margaret Craig Yeiser. Father of Ellen Yeiser, Frances Yeiser, and Henry C. Yeiser. Carpenter in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Attorney in Lyon County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned three enslaved persons in Lyon County in 1860. Attorney in Paducah from 1862 to 1886. Commonwealth's attorney for the First Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1864.

Relationships Legal: Thomas E. Reed (Fulton Co, KY, sheriff and farmer) Legal: Charles S. Marshall (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Legal: John T. Bolinger (Graves County, KY, merchant) Political: First Judicial District of Kentucky Political: Graves Circuit Court Economic: Fulton Circuit Court Political: Edward Irwin Bullock (Fulton and Hickman County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Charles S. Marshall (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Political: Hickman Circuit Court Economic: Robert W. Walker (Hickman County, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: Michael Lower Stoner (Hickman County, Kentucky, physician) Familial: George Otho Yeiser, Sr. (Boyle co. merchant / Lyon co. gentleman) Social: William Wilson Hollman (Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky, machinist and liquor dealer) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Lyon Circuit Court Legal: William H. Reader (Indicted for a misdemeanor in Lyon Circuit Court and fined $50 in 1862.) Legal: George B. Grundy (Paducah, KY, sheriff) Legal: William Boyd (McCracken County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Thomas C. Dabney (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Political: Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.) Legal: Rufus K. Williams (Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals) Legal: William L. Mays (McCracken County, KY, farmer) Legal: Richard Yates (Morgan County, Illinois, governor, attorney, representative, and senator)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 358A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, pp. 762-3. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 416A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, p. 127B. William T. Samuels, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, 1866), p. 10. Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume II (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), p. 527. "Deaths," Kentucky Advocate (Danville, KY), December 3, 1886, p. 3. "Phillip D. Yeiser (1817-1883)," Find A Grave, Memorial 84527947, accessed December 28, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84527974. S. H. Caldwell (Hickman Co., KY, attorney) N00002740 1830? Categories: People

Hickman County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Attorney in Hickman County, Kentucky, in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Moscow District, p. 221. 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. Clinton, Kentucky P00006772 Categories: Places

Seat of Hickman County.

36.6673, -88.9934 Virginia Honchell Jewell, "Clinton," in John E. Kleber, ed., The Kentucky Encyclopedia, (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 207. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Clinton, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 18, 2020). Hickman County, Kentucky P00000905 Categories: Places

County in far western Kentucky. Seat at Clinton. Located on the Ohio River.

36.6482, -88.9797 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 139. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Hickman County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on February 26, 2020). 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. Hickman County Court O00000641 Categories: Organizations

Located in Clinton, Hickman County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailer, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): W. F. Boon, Willis White. Clerk(s): Edwin R. Ray, R. H. Emerson, G. W. Rennick, and Thomas M. Kemp.

Relationships Political: Wakefield M. Samuels (Hickman County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff) Legal: Robert W. Walker (Hickman County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: William Lindsay (Hickman County, Kentucky, attorney and assistant quartermaster (CSA)) Legal: Michael Lower Stoner (Hickman County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: James W. Lockridge (Hickman County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: John D. Harlan (Hickman Co., KY, farmer)

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. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Town of Clinton, p. 498. Petition English Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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 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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To his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioner A. J. Burton will state that in the year of 1861 he being a Tavern keeper in the town of Clinton Ky & desirous to renew his License and also to remove his bar room to a house on the oposite side of the street from his tavern & being informed by some legal counsel that by obtaing from the county court a Licence embracing the building on the oposite side of the Street, that it would be legal to keep his bar at that place, & such was who the opinion of the county judge, growing out of the fact that the circuit judge also was of the same opinion, consequently he did obtain a License, but on the day of court the clerk being so busy he had not time to look in the office for the number of said lot, & the blank in the order was left to be filled in by him, which he neglected to do, & since he has been indicted for keeping a Tipling house, & at the present August term of said court for 1863 fined the sum of sixty-dollars for vending liquors in said house,

He states that he acted in good faith, believing at the time that he was violating no law. And he therefore asks that said fine be remitted --

A. I. Burton

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On motion for a new trial, in the case of the Comth- vs A. I. Burton, it appeared by the affidavit of W. F. Boon late Judge of Hickman county, that deft. Burton applied to the Hickman County Court for license to Keep tavern on two distinct lots & houses in Clinton one of which was the house in which the bar was Kept for which he was fined -- That the county court granted the license as asked for but owing to the Nos of the lots not at the time being Known the description of the lots was left blank to be filled up afterward which was not done -- It appears that lawyers and the county Judge were of opinion that the county court could grant license in such a manner that the tavern could be kept in one house and the bar kept at a different place -- I believe Mr Burton thought he had such license and that he was violating no law by keeping his bar room and selling spirits when he did-

C. S. Marshall Judge Hickman Circuit court P D Yeiser coml atty

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We whose names are hereunto annexed respectfully ask your excellency to remit the fine referred to believing that Mr Burton acted in good faith,

E R Ray Clerk Hickman County Court

Attorney's practicing in the Hickman Circuit Court

J M. Bigger A. R. Boon Geo. T. Barret F, M, Ray T G Poore } Attorneys at Law

S. H Caldwell

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Hickman Co Petition of A. J. Burton

Remit all except costs and atty's fees Sept 14th 1863

Tho E Bramlette

sent. 14th Sept/63 $60 --