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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-0001-004-0128 BR8-193 to BR8-194

Jefferson County, Kentucky Raymond B. Lynch (Louisville, KY, printer) N002007 1824-12-03 1911-03-02 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, printer. Louisville native. Married to Josephine E. Stutsman Lynch in Jefferson County on May 6, 1849. Father of Monroe Lynch, Raymond Bell Lynch, George J. Lynch, Mary A Lynch, Belle Lynch, and Florence Lynch. Louisville printer in 1850. Louisville resident in 1863. Printer for the Louisville Journal and the Louisville Courier-Journal. Member of the Louisville Printers' Society. Member of the Louisville Typographical Union, No. 10.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 396B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 12, p. 592A. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Enumeraction District 141, p. 176C. Find A Grave, "Josephine Stutsman Lynch (unknown-1898)," Memorial 171352256, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171352256 (accessed December 4, 2019). Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000819613, p. 220 of microfilm. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, Kentucky, Roll 7007129: Jefferson County, Books 9-11, p. 451. “Pay Tribute to Memory of Raymond B. Lynch, Pioneer Louisville Printer,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), March 12, 1911, p. A3. KYR-0001-004-0133. Caroline Dement (Tennessee/Louisville, KY, enslaved person, contraband, cook, and domestic servant) N002001 1842? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Enslaved by John Dement in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Married to [Unknown] [Unknown], a contraband hired to work for Charles Levi in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1862. Fled as a contraband to Louisville in September 1862. Cook and domestic servant in the household of Willis Levi Jr., and Anna Levi from September 1862 to February 1863. Convicted of the murder of Blanche Levi in May 1863. Pardoned by Thomas E. Bramlette on September 24, 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Rutherford County, Browns Mill township, p. 58. KYR-0001-020-0131. KYR-0001-020-0134. Blanche Levi (Louisville, Kentucky) N002006 1861-11? 1863-02 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, native. Daughter of Anna and Willis Levi. Died from strychnine poisoning in February 1863.

KYR-0001-004-0131. Willis Levi, Jr. (Louisville, KY, steamboat engineer) N00000995 1836-09-21 1909-12-21 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat engineer. Kentucky native. Son of Willis Levi. Married to Anna Stutsman Levi in Louisville on August 16, 1860. Father of Blanche Levi and Lillie Ernestine Levi. Student in Louisville in 1850. Family owned three enslaved persons in 1850. Steamboat engineer in Louisville in 1860. Family owned one enslaved person in 1860. Employed Caroline Dement as cook and domestic servant from September 1862 to February 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 437B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 4 of microfilm. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 664. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 61. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 11th Ward, p. 529A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000819613, p. 412. Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7017502: All Counties, Jefferson County Deaths File #17136, p. 642. Find A Grave, "Willis Levi, Jr (1836-1909)," Memorial #10423495, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104234952, (accessed August, 7, 2017). KYR-0001-004-0131. Anna Stutsman Levi (Louisville, KY resident. Mother of Blanche Levi) N002005 1836-09-29 1920-01-31 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Louisville native. Daughter of Jacob Stutsman and Mary Cox Stutsman. Married to Willis Levi, Jr., in Louisville on August 16, 1860. Mother of Blanche Levi and Lillie Ernestine Levi. Resident in Louisville in 1860.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 11th Ward, p. 529A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000819613, p. 412. Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1955), KDLA, File #3534, Frankfort, Kentucky, Film 7016226: All Counties, p. 1532. Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, File #17136, Roll #7017502: All Counties, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 642. Find A Grave, "Anna Stutsman Levi (1836-1920)," Memorial 184312798, findagrave.com/memorial/184312798 (accessed December 4, 2019). KYR-0001-004-0134. John H. Talbott (Notary in Jefferson County) N002009 1816? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, hotel owner and notary. Kentucky native. Married Ann Rice Johnson Talbott. Father of James F Talbott, Arabella Talbott, Mary L. Talbott, William F. Talbott, Ann R. Talbott, and John H. Talbott. Nelson County, Kentucky, resident in 1850. Proprietor of the Commercial Hotel in Louisville in 1860. Notary Public for Jefferson County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Nelson. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 23. Kentucky, County Marriages, 1783-1965, Ancestry, Nelson County, 1838. Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, 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. Louisville Journal O001002 1830 1868 Categories: Organizations

Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper. Owners(s): A. J. Buxton and George W. Weissinger. Editor(s): George D. Prentice.

Betty Carolyn Congleton, "Louisville Journal" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 582-83. Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-09-19 Legal/Financial 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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Commonwealth against } Affidavit of Raymon Lynch Caroline, charged with the murder of Blanche Levy child of Willis & Annie Levy

Raymon Lynch states on oath that he lives next door to Willis Levy & an is his brother in Law. Levy & himself having married sister's.

I have been in the Louisville Journal office since 1836. I was foreman of the office for ten years, & since 1859 I have been chief clerk in the counting room,

I leave home early every morning & do not return untill night, Sundays excepted.

All I know about Mr Levy throwing out poison I learnt from Caroline Case, sister and neighbor of Levis) who has already given an affidavit in this case. I have no hesitancy in stating that the facts sworn to by Caroline Case, sister and neighbor of Levis) are true I did have a dog poisoned by Mr Willis Levy

Raymond Lynch.

State of Ky Jefferson Co

Personally appeared before me Raymond Lynch who made oath that the above affadavit

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Signed by him in my presence was true

Given under my hand and Seal Notorial this 19th Septr 1863

Jno H Talbott Notary Public for Jefferson County

JNO. H. TALBOTT NOTARY PUBLIC JEFFERSON CO, KY.