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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-0001-004-0100 BR8-149

Hartford, Ohio 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. Moses Baer (Hartford retail liquor dealer) N00002805 1836-02-21 1894-09-11 Categories: People

Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, retail liquor dealer. Native of Germany. Son of Isak Baer and Judith Hausmann Baer. Retail liquor dealer in Hartford, Kentucky in 1863 and 1865.

Relationships Legal: Ohio Circuit Court

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), Ohio County, KY, p. 401, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Ohio County, Kentucky, 1865, p. 63 (Accessed via ancestry.com). "Moses Baer (1836-1894)," Find A Grave, Memorial 97075461, accessed June 7, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97075461. William J. Berry (Hartford, Kentucky, physician) N00001151 1816-07-09 1893-12-17 Categories: People

Hartford, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Ann Martha Walker Berry in Ohio County, Kentucky, on July 26, 1838. Father of Zelma Berry, Samuel Berry, Lavega Berry, Harris Berry, Mary L. Berry, Mattie Berry, and William L. Berry. Physician in Hartford in 1860.

Relationships Social: Moses Baer (Hartford retail liquor dealer) Political: Moses Baer (Hartford retail liquor dealer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford, p. 196. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Ohio County Marriages, Film #000494956, p. 109-110. Find A Grave, "Dr William Jefferson Berry (July 9, 1816-December 17, 1893)," Memorial #57567135, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57567135 (accessed July 31, 2018). Hartford, Kentucky P001000 Categories: Places

Seat of Ohio County, Kentucky.

37.4512, -86.9092 "Hartford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 133. Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky 1863-09-14 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Hartford Ky sept 14. 1863. To his Excelency Gov Bramlete

I have been called uppon- by Mr Moses Bare- to state the condition of his health, I have Known him for the last Eight years, and to my certain Knolledge his health has not been good during the time of my acquaintance with him he is very small- what we call a dwarfe- he is also a forigner and is unacquainted with our Laws untill his our last Grand Jury met since that time I believe that he has obeyed the Laws to the letter I will further state that I believe that he was led off by several Houses kept in our town by Native Born cittizins for I know that all our Grocerys asold in violation of our Laws and I further state that I am confident that it is the wish of at least 3 fourth of our citizens that his fine should be remited.

IYours in hast.

W J Berry M. D