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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-0001-004-0192 BR8-302

Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky Ephraim L. Van Winkle (Pulaski Co, KY, attorney & Sec. State) N001777 1827-07-20 1866-05-23 Categories: People

Pulaski County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and statesman. Wayne County, Kentucky, native. Son of Micajah Van Winkle and Mary Phillips Van Winkle. Married to Ellen Eliza Phillips Van Winkle. Father of Milton E. Van Winkle, Mary E. Van Winkle, Lucy A. Van Winkle, and Betty Van Winkle. Attended the Monticello Academy in Wayne County, Kentucky. Graduate of the Louisville School of Law in 1850. Attorney in Wayne County in 1850. Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Wayne County in 1855. Commonwealth's attorney for the Sixth Judicial District in 1856. State elector for Constitutional Union Party candidate John Bell in 1860. Attorney in Pulaski County in 1860. Employed James Cowan as a day laborer in Pulaski County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Pulaski County in 1860. Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to May 23, 1866.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, Division No. 2, p. 242B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, p. 155. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset District 1, p. 195A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Pulaski County, KY, July 1863, p. 163. "Ephraim Van Winkle," Office of the Kentucky Secretary of State, accessed September 22, 2021, https://web.sos.ky.gov/ofx/secsofstate?id=39. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Rolls 994057, Wayne County Births. 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. John W. Clark (Eddyville, Kentucky, merchant and postmaster) N00003027 1827? Categories: People

Eddyville, Kentucky, merchant and postmaster. Ohio, native. Married to Lucy Ann Clark. Father of Elizabeth A. Clark. Postmaster in Eddyville from June 1858 to August 1861. Merchant in Eddyville in 1860.

Relationships Social: Thomas J. Gregory (Lyon County, Ky, farmer) Social: Thomas W. Grimmer (Lyon County laborer) Social: Elzathan Smith (Lyon County, Ky, carpenter and grocer) Social: George C. Lester (Clerk in Eddyville, Kentucky) Social: William M. Bowman (Clerk in Eddyville, Kentucky) Social: James M. Lester (Lyon County, Kentucky, merchant.) Social: William C. Bigham (Lyon, Kentucky, farmer. ) Social: George R. Dupuy (Lyon County, KY, tobacco stemmer and mechanic) Social: James N. Gracey (Lyon County merchant) Social: Urey Henry (Lyon County, Kentucky, retail dealer) Social: James N. Holloway (Lyon County, Kentucky, grocer.) Social: William B. Wadlington (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and 1st lieut 48th Ky Inf USA) Social: John Boyd, Sr. (Lyon/caldwell co. farmer) Social: Linah M. Cobb (Lyon County, Kentucky, clerk) Social: William W. Pinner (Lyon County, Kentucky, physician) Social: Thomas P. Paine (Lyon County, Kentucky, master carpenter and manufacturer) Social: Finis A. Wilson (Lyon County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Alford H. Champion (Lyon County, Kentucky, physician.) Social: David L. Gardner (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and farm laborer) Social: William H. Long (Lyon County, Kentucky, dry goods merchant and post master) Social: Robert Hayden (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer) Social: David S. Hollman (Lyon County, Kentucky, stone mason) Social: Littleton F. Cash (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: William M. Wyatt (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Joel Howell (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Alfred M. Fleming (Lyon County, Kentucky, postmaster and trader.) Social: Preston M. Hildreth (Lyon County farmer) Social: William Wilson Hollman (Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky, machinist and liquor dealer) Social: Octavius Marcellus Jenkins (Eddyville, Kentucky, merchant) Social: James L. Stubbs (Lyon County, Kentucky, laborer and constable.) Social: George M. Huggans (Lyon County, Kentucky, physician) Social: Matthew Martin Lyon (Lyon/ Caldwell cos., Kentucky, miller) Social: Reuben R. O'Hara (Lyon County, Kentucky, retail dealer) Social: Frederick Henry Skinner (Lyon County, Kentucky, hotel keeper, attorney, and judge.) Social: Alexander H. Dudley (Lyon County, Kentucky, court clerk) Social: Jacob T. Young (Lyon County, Kentucky, sheriff) Legal: Lyon Circuit Court Social: Joseph "Crittenden" Holloway (Lyon County, Kentucky, resident) Social: Nicholas T. Braswell (Lyon County, Kentucky, grocer and landlord.) Social: Charles N. Braswell (Lyon County, Kentucky, naval officer) Legal: Elias Smith (Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 761. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, Lyon County, Kentucky, p. 126, (accessed via Ancestry.com). Eddyville, Kentucky P00003025 Categories: Places

Seat of Lyon County, Kentucky.

37.0945, -88.0803 "Eddyville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 27, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 88. 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. Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky 1863-10-07 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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Eddyville Ky, 7th Oct 1863 E. L. Vanwinkle Sec of State Dear Sir --

In reply to yours of the 25th Ulto, the undersigned is the name of the Administrator and Judgement was rendered in the forfeited Bond at the June term 1863 of the Lyon Circuit Court I also Send you the Statement of the Clerk (Mer A. H. Dudley) as to amt and term.

Yours Respectfully John W. Clark