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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-0001-004-0191 BR8-301

Alexander H. Dudley (Lyon County, Kentucky, court clerk) N00002700 1808? Categories: People

Lyon County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Susanna Anderson Dudley in Todd County, Kentucky, on November 17, 1830. Father of Robert Dudley, Benjamin Dudley, Georgia Dudley, Frances A. Dudley, and Anna Bell Dudley. Married to Marie Dudley. Father of Walter Dudley. Merchant in Fulton County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Fulton County in 1850. Clerk of the Lyon County Court from 1859 to 1864.

Relationships Economic: Lyon Circuit Court Economic: Lyon County Court Legal: Lyon County Court Legal: Lyon Circuit Court Social: John V. Hildreth, Sr. (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer.) Social: William Washington Hildreth (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Nicholas T. Braswell (Lyon County, Kentucky, grocer and landlord.) Social: Charles N. Braswell (Lyon County, Kentucky, naval officer) Social: Alford H. Champion (Lyon County, Kentucky, physician.) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Elias Smith (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Lyon Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fulton County, Hickman, p. 112B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fulton County. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 761. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Todd County Marriages, Film 000367186. "Fourth Congressional District," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), August 8, 1859, p. 1. 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. KYR-0001-029-0096 KYR-0001-029-0548. Elias Smith (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer) N00003022 1796? 1861-02 Categories: People

Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer. South Carolina, native. Farmer in Lyon County in 1860. Owned twenty-five enslaved persons in Lyon County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: John W. Clark (Eddyville, Kentucky, merchant and postmaster) Legal: Lyon Circuit Court Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, p. 97. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, p. 415. William Goodrich (Lyon County, Kentucky, wood chopper) N00003023 1818? Categories: People

Lyon County, Kentucky, wood chopper. Ohio, native. Married to Mahala Goodrich. Father of Eliza J. Goodrich and William G. Goodrich. Wood chopper in Lyon County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Elias Smith (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Elias Smith (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: Elias Smith (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Lyon Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, p. 753. Lyon Circuit Court O00000412 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 2nd Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Thomas C. Dabney and R. T. Petree. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): E. P. Campbell. Clerk(s): William Sharpe, A. H. Dudley, and John W. Clark.

Relationships Legal: Alexander H. Dudley (Lyon County, Kentucky, court clerk) Economic: Alexander H. Dudley (Lyon County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William Boyd (McCracken County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Philip D. Yeiser (Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) Legal: Charles N. Braswell (Lyon County, Kentucky, naval officer) Legal: Nicholas T. Braswell (Lyon County, Kentucky, grocer and landlord.) Legal: Jacob T. Young (Lyon County, Kentucky, sheriff)

“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. 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. Legal/Financial 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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I; A H Dudley clerk of the Lyon Circuit Court do certify that at a Circuit Court holden for said County on the 22 day of June 1863, The Commonwealth of Ky recovered of Elias Smiths Admr. the sum of $350, upon a forfeited recognizance of Wm Goodrich

Attest A H Dudley Clk.