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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-0001-004-0464 BR9-227 to BR9-228

Bardstown, Nelson 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. James Lawrence Marshall (Nelson County, Kentucky, cabinet maker.) N00012971 1813-11-21 1865-05-14 Categories: People

Nelson County, Kentucky, cabinetmaker. Delaware native. Son of Samuel Marshall and Elizabeth Marshall. Married to Melvina O. Cox Marshall in Nelson County in September 1838. Father of Sarah Marshall, Christina Marshall, Melvina Marshall, and Kate Marshall. Married to Elizabeth Marshall in Nelson County on October 11, 1853. Father of Edward T. Marshall and Charlotte Marshall. Cabinetmaker in Nelson County in 1850. Employed J. R. Strange as a cabinetmaker, Thomas Milligan as a clerk, and Henry Brenner as a carpenter in Nelson County in 1850. Tavern keeper in Nelson County in 1852. Owned one enslaved person in Nelson County in 1850. Cabinetmaker in Nelson County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Nelson Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 287B-288A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 7. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 257. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film #000009668. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film #000481509. "James Lawrence Marshall (1813-1865)," Find A Grave, Memorial #52294337, accessed June 30, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52294337. KYR-0001-004-0323. George W. Hite (Nelson County, Kentucky, representative and attorney) N00017227 1806? Categories: People

Nelson County, Kentucky, representative and attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Mary A. Hite. Father of Thomas M. Hite and Rhoda Hite Sheridan. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Nelson County from 1848 to 1849. Attorney in Nelson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Attorney in Jefferson County in 1861.

Relationships Political: James Lawrence Marshall (Nelson County, Kentucky, cabinet maker.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 389A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 236. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994050, Nelson County Marriages, p. 217. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (1848), vol. 2, December 30, 1848 - February 28, 1849, (Frankfort: A. C. Hodges & Co, 1849), 5. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 303. Bardstown, Kentucky P00004617 Categories: Places

Seat of Nelson County, Kentucky.

37.8092, -85.4669 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 14. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Bardstown, Kentucky " https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on January 30, 2020). Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Nelson County, Kentucky P001012 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Bardstown.

37.7647, -85.4788 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 210. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Nelson County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on November 5, 2019). Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky 1864-01-11 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Bardstown Ky. Jany. 11' '64 Gov. Bramlette.

This letter will reach you, accompanied by a petition in behalf of Jas. L. Marshall.

I know nothing of the facts of the case, but I know many of the names to the petition, and I have no hesitation in saying to you, that the prayer of the petition should be granted, if consistent with your official duties: The petition is signed by some of the most highly respectable citizens of our county --

Wishing you all the

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happiness & prospeity that could happen mortality --

I am- Yours Truly

Geo. W. Heite