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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-0001-004-1371 BR12-124 to BR12-125

Henderson, Henderson 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. William H. Brown (Webster County, Kentucky, farmer.) N00002586 1829-04-29 1894-11-21 Categories: People

Webster County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Jane Tyler Brown. Father of Ebenezar Brown, Dabney Brown, and Ruth Brown. Farmer in Webster County, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Webster 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 Schedule, Kentucky, Webster, p. 37. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, District 4, p. 234B. "William H. Brown (1829-1894)," Find A Grave, Memorial #97689779, accessed December 1, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97689779. Samuel B. Vance, Sr. (Henderson, Kentucky, minister, attorney and city council advisor) N00000957 1830? 1901-07-15 Categories: People

Henderson, Kentucky, minister, attorney and city council advisor. Tennessee native. Married Nannie "Ann" E. Dixon Vance on November 21, 1854. Father of Cordelia Vance, Robert Vance, Mary Vance, Samuel B. Vance, Jr., and Andrew Vance. Graduated from Cumberland University in Tennessee in 1849. Minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1849 and 1850. Attorney in Henderson in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860. Advisor to the Henderson City Council from 1858 to 1859 and 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Henry Raines (Indicted in the Henderson Circuit Court) Economic: Henry Raines (Indicted in the Henderson Circuit Court) Legal: Henderson Circuit Court Economic: Henderson Circuit Court Legal: Milton Young (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and politician) Social: Milton Young (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and politician) Political: Lazarus Whitehead Powell (Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Social: William H. Brown (Webster County, Kentucky, farmer.)

Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, KY: n.p., 1887), p. 374; Jordan Dodd, Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850, Ancestry, Henderson County, Kentucky, November 21,1854; U.S., College Student Lists, 1763-1924, Ancestry, Cumberland College, 1852. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 2, p. 287; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 35; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 33; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson, Ward 4, p. 31; Find A Grave, "Samuel B. Vance (1830-1901)," Memorial #85260955, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=85260955 (accessed July 28, 2017). Henderson, Kentucky P001815 Categories: Places

Seat of Henderson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

37.8362, -87.59 Boynton Merill Jr., "Henderson," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000), p. 423-24. “Henderson, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Webster County, Kentucky P00002312 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Dixon. Located on the Green River.

37.5178, -87.6903 James Duane Bolin, "Webster County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 939-40. "Dixon, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/, accessed September 6, 2019. Webster Circuit Court O00000588 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 14th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): William P. Fowler. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Lloyd M. Lowe, John Barrett, and Benjamin P. Cissell. Clerk(s): B. D. Winstead, Hiram H. Smith, and Marion C. Doris.

Relationships Political: Marion C. Doris (Webster Co., KY, Circuit Co. Clerk, merchant)

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. 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. Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky 1864-12-29 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": 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 "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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Henderson. Ky Dec 29th/64, Hon Tho's. E. Bramlette: Sir:

I herewith transmit to you, a petition in behalf of W. H. Brown, a citizen of Webster county, Not being known to your Excellency, no statement of mine could add any force to the petition -- but many of the signers are doubtless known to you, as among the truest and most respectable men of that section of the state, I will say only that from confidential communication with Brown, as his counsel, I am satisfied that the statements of the petition are literally true,

The reason for seeking your

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Excellency's interposition now, rather than after trial, is that it would be a social misfortune for such a man as Brown, and for his family, to bear the stigma of his conviction for a felony, for an act so done, as this the signers of his petition show that the best of the community would so regard it,

Will your Excellency be kind enough to inform me of your determination touching this petition

With high consideration

Your obt Servant

S. B. Vance

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Webster Cir Ct vs W M Brown Pardoned 3d Jany/635