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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-0001-004-1341 BR12-88 to BR12-89

Louisa, Lawrence 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. Gabriel Endicott (Lawrence County farmer and prisoner for man slaughter) N00004886 1833? Categories: People

Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Endicott and Esther Endicott. Married to Roda Endicott. Father of Easter Endicott, James F. Endicott, Sarah Endicott, Mary Endicott, Polly Endicott, Benjamin Endicott, and Gabriel Endicott. Farmer in Lawrence County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) Legal: David Justice (Lawrence County) Legal: Landaff Watson Andrews (Fleming County, KY Politician, 10th Cir Ct Judge, atty) Legal: Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) Legal: Lawrence Circuit Court Political: James McGlone (Carter County, Kentucky, farmer.) Political: James W. Scott (Carter County) Political: David M. Harper (Carter County, KY, farmer) Political: John Grizzell (Carter County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Elijah Horton (Carter County) Political: Samuel Everman (Grayson, Carter County, KY, farmer) Political: William Everman (Carter County) Political: Jackson Brown Ward (Carter County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 124. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 137. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, Precinct 7, p. 9. David Justice (Lawrence County) N00004887 1821? 1859? Categories: People

Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret Justice. Father of Nancy Justice, Julia Justice, and Sarahan Justice. Owned nine enslaved persons in Lawrence County in 1850. Farmer in Lawrence County in 1850.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 85. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County. Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) N00000825 1829-01-13 1892-11-09 Categories: People

Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier. Cabell County, Virginia, native. Son of Frederick William Moore. Married to Sarah A. Everett Moore on January 15, 1850. Father of Felicia E. Moore, Mary F. Moore, S. G. Moore, Minnie H. Moore, and Druzilla Moore. Attended Marshall Academy in Virginia. Graduate of Marietta College in Washington County, Ohio. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1849. Member of the Whig Party and Democratic Party. Attorney in Lawrence County in 1850. Member of the United States House of Representative from the Ninth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. Member of the Opposition Party. Attorney in Lawrence County in 1860. Served in the 14th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a colonel from November 1861 to January 1862.

Relationships Legal: Lawrence Circuit Court Political: Richard Scott, Sr. (Catlettsburg, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Elba Ulin (Catlettsburg, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Richard Taylor Jacob (Oldham Co, KY, Col of 9th Cav, Lt. Gov of KY, 1863-1867) Military: Gaylord McFall (Richland County, Ohio, merchant and soldier) Military: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Military: Samuel Orr (Delaware County, IN, farmer and soldier) Military: Thomas McKinster (Lawrence County, KY, farmer and soldier) Economic: Boyd Circuit Court Legal: James L. Turman (Boyd County, Kentucky, farmer and tavern keeper and farmer) Economic: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Economic: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Jackson H. Jacobs (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer and captain 14th Cav USA & 1st lt Cap Guards) Military: 14th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 75B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 186. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 333B. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Upper Catlettsburg Precinct 6, p. 213A. E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry, and Modern Activities, Vol. 3 (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), p. 1562-1564. “Moore, Laban Theodore,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000907. Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 350. “Col. Laban T. Moore Dead,” Mt. Sterling Advocate (Mount Sterling, Ky.), November 15, 1892. “Laban Theodore Moore (1829-1892),” Find A Grave, Memorial 7773434, accessed December 20, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7773434. Landaff Watson Andrews (Fleming County, KY Politician, 10th Cir Ct Judge, atty) N00001182 1803-02-12 1888-12-23 Categories: People

Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney, legislator, and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Dorsey Andrews. Father of Juliet Andrews, Margaret Andrew, and James Ella Andrews. Graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1824. Attorney in Fleming County from 1828 to 1839. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fleming County in 1834 and 1838. Whig Party member of Congress of the United States of America from Kentucky from 1839 to 1843. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fleming County from 1857 to 1861. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1860. Held interest in an additional fourteen enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fleming County from 1861 to 1862. Judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit from 1862 to 1868.

Relationships Legal: Lawrence Circuit Court Legal: Adolphus Lafayette Reid (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer, and sheriff. ) Legal: John C. Adams (Greenup County, Kentucky, judge and lawyer) Legal: John S. Jones (Greenup County, Kentucky, county court clerk, postmaster, iron manufacturer & manager ) Legal: John Seaton (Greenup County, KY, judge) Legal: Greenup County Court Legal: Ninth Judicial District of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg, p. 256A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg, District 2, p. 623. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg, District 2, p.473B , p. 473B. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 230-31. Sixty-first U.S. Congress, Senate Documents, Volume 56: Biographical Congressional Directory (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913), p. 442. 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. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY), December 21, 1888, page 3. "Landaff Watson Andrews" (1803-1888), Find a Grave, Memorial 7669613, accessed March 3, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7669613. William Vinson (Lawrence County ) N00004888 1816-03-22 1882-04-13 Categories: People

Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer and lumberman. Wayne County, Virginia, native. Married to Jane Chambers Vinson. Father of Richard Vinson, Zariah Vinson Johnson, Tennessee Vinson, Zotto Cushing Vinson, Mary J. Vinson, and Pharaoh Vinson. Representative in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1853 to 1854.

Relationships Political: Gabriel Endicott (Lawrence County farmer and prisoner for man slaughter) Familial: David Justice (Lawrence County) Legal: Gabriel Endicott (Lawrence County farmer and prisoner for man slaughter) Legal: Landaff Watson Andrews (Fleming County, KY Politician, 10th Cir Ct Judge, atty) Legal: Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) Economic: Landaff Watson Andrews (Fleming County, KY Politician, 10th Cir Ct Judge, atty) Economic: Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) Legal: Lawrence Circuit Court Legal: James M. Rice (Lawrence County, attorney.) Legal: James M. Nesbitt (Bath County, Kentucky, attorney & comm'th atty) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Lawrence County Jail Social: Jesse P. Meeks (Boyd County, Kentucky, brick mason) Social: Clabourn Hyton (Boyd County, Kentucky, laborer)

E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry, and Modern Activities, Volume 3 (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), p. 1507. Find A Grave, “William Oliver Vinson (March 22, 1816-April 13, 1882),” Memorial #83483248, http://findagrave.com/memorial/83483248 (accessed March 6, 2018). William Vinson, “Letter, William Vinson to Wife and Children, Richmond Va., January 28, 1854 (Ms2008-048),” VT Special Collections Online, accessed January 27, 2017, https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Appalachia/Ms2008-048VinsonWilliamLetter1854. _Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Virginia, Wayne County, District 66, p. 266. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 145. Kentucky Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates (1911-1955), Ancestry, 1919, Lawrence County, file no. 19059. Louisa, Kentucky P00000553 Categories: Places

Seat of Lawrence County, Kentucky. Located on the Big Sandy River.

38.1143, -82.6032 George Wolfford, “Louisa,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 574. "Louisa, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 22, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Lawrence County, Kentucky P00000552 Categories: Places

County in northeast Kentucky. Seat at Louisa. Located on the Big Sandy River.

38.1143, -82.6032 George Wolfford, “Lawrence County” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 537. "Louisa, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 22, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Lawrence Circuit Court O00000418 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 11th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): William H. Burns and Richard A. Apperson, Jr. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): J. M. Nesbitt and J. Saige Dury. Clerk(s): M. B. Goble and Richard F. Vinson.

Relationships Legal: James P. Wilson (Wayne Co, VA / WV farmer) Legal: Kenas F. Prichard (Lawrence County, KY, attorney) Legal: Richard Fletcher Vinson (Lawrence Circuit and County Court Clerk) Legal: John G. Johns (Floyd Circuit and County Court Clerk) Legal: John W. Haws (Lawrence County) Legal: Gabriel Endicott (Lawrence County farmer and prisoner for man slaughter)

“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. Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky 1864-11-05 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Louisa Ky, October Novr 5th 1864 To his Excellency Thomas E, Bramlet, Governor,,

Some five years ago one Gabriel Endicott, was convicted in the Lawrence Court for manslaughter, in killing David Justice, who, was my Brotherinlaw, I took the lead in employing counsel to assist in prosecuting said Endicott, we employed Col, L. T. Moore, Honl L, W, Andrews and others; -- the case being as strangely made by proof as could be produced, left it only a case of circumstantial evidence; taking all things into consideration I am satisfied, the ends of

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Justice; and cause of humanity, would be better, attained by pardoning Endicott, than keeping, him longer, confined to obtain this end, I have united, in a petition, of my neighbours, and have no doubt the entire, population of the county, would if applied to unite, in the prayer for his pardon; I am sir very respectfully your

obedient Servant William Vinson