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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-0001-004-1311 BR12-40 to BR12-41

Columbia, Adair 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. Richard Smith (Cumberland County) N00003599 1833? 1865 Categories: People

Cumberland County, Kentucky, resident. Clinton County, Kentucky native. Son of Jane Smith. Enlisted in Captain Thomas Smith’s company in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Adair Circuit Court Legal: Andrew Jackson James (Frankfort, KY, attorney, Ky state rep, and Atty Genl of Ky 1859-63) Legal: Cumberland Circuit Court Familial: [unknown] Smith (Cumberland County resident) Familial: Jane Smith (Clinton County) Legal: John Henry Clay Sandidge (Cumberland County attorney and 15th District Commonwealth’s Attorney) Legal: Michael Henry Owsley (Cumberland County, Kentucky, attorney, capt & major in 1st & 5th Cav (USA)) Legal: James Alexander Rousseau (Metcalfe County attorney) Legal: Thomas C. Winfrey (Cumberland County attorney) Legal: Squire B. Lewis (Cumberland County) Legal: Martin White (Cumberland County) Legal: John Cloyd (Cumberland County) Legal: James J. Murphy (Cumberland County) Legal: John R. Page (Cumberland County) Legal: Asa H. Teal (Cumberland County) Legal: M. C. Mayo (Cumberland County) Legal: James E. Frazier (Cumberland County) Legal: William L. Philpott (Cumberland County) Legal: James Presley (Cumberland County) Legal: James P. Garrett (Cumberland County) Legal: Levi Piles (Likely Cumberland County) Legal: John B. Cassady (Metcalfe County, KY, farmer) Legal: Herschel Clay Baker (Adair County, KY, attorney) Legal: William E. Russell (Adair County attorney) Legal: R. M. Alexander (Cumberland County physician) Legal: Milton M. Smiley (Cumberland County) Legal: Benjamin B. Vaughan (Cumberland County) Legal: George W. Overstreet (Overton County, Tennessee, farmer, merchant and tobacco dealer) Legal: Timoleon Cravens (Adair County attorney) Legal: Alexander Naylor (Adair County) Legal: James M. Wilson (Adair Co. Farmer) Legal: Josiah Frankum (Adair County) Legal: Thomas Turner (stub Adair Co) Legal: Henry Logan (Adair County) Legal: Henry J. Payne (Adair County) Legal: Nathaniel M. Collins (Adair County) Legal: Robert T. Bennett (Adair County) Legal: James T. Page (Adair County deputy and circuit court clerk) Legal: A. B. Williams (Adair County) Legal: Joel Robert Montgomery (Adair County) Legal: Hiram C. White (Adair County) Legal: Hugh K. Walker (Adair County) Legal: Samuel Wilburne (Cumberland County) Legal: Reece Morgan (Adair County) Legal: Jane Smith (Clinton County) Legal: Thomas Wood (Cumberland County) Social: Thomas Wood (Cumberland County) Legal: T. Q. Walker (Adair County physician) Legal: Louisa Morgan (Cumberland County) Legal: Thomas Tyler Alexander (Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, judge, and provost marshal) Legal: Kentucky Court of Appeals Legal: Joshua Fry Bullitt (Louisville. Ct. of Appeals Judge) Legal: Elzy Morgan (Cumberland County)

KYR-0001-004-1309. [unknown] Smith (Cumberland County resident) N00004858 Categories: People

Cumberland County, Kentucky, resident. Married to Richard Smith. Resident in Cumberland County in 1865.

KYR-0001-004-1311. Jane Smith (Clinton County) N00003545 1803? Categories: People

Clinton County, Kentucky, resident. Tennessee native. Married to Robert Smith. Mother of Richard Smith, Emberson Smith, Andrew J. Smith, Sarilda Smith, Matilda Smith, Jasper Smith, Shelby M. Smith, and Newton Smith. Resident in Clinton County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: Richard Smith (Cumberland County)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District 1, p. 181. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, Albany, p. 9. Sarah "Sallie" Travis Bramlette (Adair County, KY, First Lady of Kentucky) N00003620 1819 1872-03-04 Categories: People

Adair County, Kentucky, resident and first lady of Kentucky. Tennessee native. Married to Thomas Elliott Bramlette in 1837. Mother of James T. Bramlette, William Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrine Bramlette. Resident of Clinton County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Clinton County in 1850. Household employed Matilda Cowan in Clinton County in 1850. First lady of Kentucky from 1863 to 1867.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District 1, p. 181A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District 1, p. 335. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Eighth Ward, p. 83B. Lowell H. Harrison, “Bramlette, Thomas Elliott,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 112. Ross A. Webb, “Thomas Elliott Bramlette,” in Kentucky’s Governors, ed. Lowell H. Harrison (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), p. 93. U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Ancestry, Kentucky, 1863, Collection District 2, Division 3, Adair County, Columbia. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), Ancestry, Louisville, Deaths, 1872. Louisa B. Owens Taylor (Adair County) N00003619 1824 1901 Categories: People

Adair County, Kentucky, resident. Married to Chesley Jones Taylor. Mother of Isabella Taylor, Chestor Taylor, and Winona Taylor. Resident in Adair County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Richard Smith (Cumberland County)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 2, p. 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, p. 88. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, p. 1. Find A Grave, “Louisa B. Owens Taylor (1824-1901),” Memorial #89137919, http://findagrave.com/memorial/89137919 (accessed February 14, 2018). “Mrs. Lou B. Taylor Dead,” The Adair County News (Ky), January 1, 1902, p. 3. Columbia, Kentucky P001014 Categories: Places

Seat of Adair County, Kentucky.

37.1028, -85.3064 “Columbia,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 216. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Columbia, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on June 25, 2020). Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky 1865-01-29 Correspondence 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 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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Columbia Ky Jan 29th 1865 Gov Bramblette

You are aware there is a Mr Smith, now in our jail condemn'd to be executed on the 3rd of February unless your excellency will grant him another month to prepare to meet his God. May I ask in his behalf, that you will grant him another Short month, to prepare himself for that awful hour. He seems truely penitent, but still feels that he is unprepared it seems to be the desire of the citizens generally, that he Should have longer time for preperations he says if he could feel himself prepared to die, he would not dread the death he has to die, grant this last appeal of a poor dying fellow creature, and I,

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am Sure when your earthly career is ended you will not regret haveing done so.

he has a Wife mother and five helpless little children. and he himself a poor ignorant man.

Please answer this by Telegraph as it will be too late to answer it otherwise,

My kindest regards to Mrs Bramblette, and family

Respectfully yours Louisa B Taylor