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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-0001-004-3101 BR41-260 to BR41-261

Louisville, Jefferson 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. Frances Stewart (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) N00019034 1829? Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Married to Henry Stewart. Mother of William Stewart, James Stewart, Charles Stewart, and John Stewart. Resident of Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Economic: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, landlord. Associated with the prosecution of Frances Stewart in Louisville City Court.) Economic: Alice Smith (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, sex worker and madam.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 2, p. 475. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p.404B. Alice Smith (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, sex worker and madam.) N00019036 1832? Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, sex worker and madam. New York native. Sex worker and madam in Louisville in 1860. Employed Haddie Seymour, Dora Forrester, Anna McCord, Laura Sands, and Mary Campbell as sex workers in Louisville in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 1, p. 205. [Unknown] [Unknown] (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, landlord. Associated with the prosecution of Frances Stewart in Louisville City Court.) N00019035 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, landlord. Charged with renting a house for prostitution in Louisville. Associated with the prosecution of Frances Stewart in Louisville City Court.

KYR-0001-004-3101 Jonathan Hobson Price (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney) N002014 1830? 1882-12-19 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney. Warren County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Price. Deputy sheriff in Jefferson County from 1856 to 1860. Partner with Robert F. Baird in Baird & Price law firm in Louisville from 1860 to 1878.

Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007127, Louisville Deaths, p. 285-86. Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), p. 484. John Petrie, “Noted Characters Memorable to Louisville: Jonathan Hobson Price,” Louisville Courier-Journal, March 19, 1916, C1. William Gatton Reasor (Louisville, KY, attorney, city council, and notary public) N002029 1830? 1870-10-26 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Matilda Goss Reasor in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 1, 1862. Father of William T. Reasor and Catharine L. Reasor. Member of the City Council of Louisville from the 2nd Ward in 1859. Attorney in Louisville from 1860 to 1861. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861. City attorney of Louisville from 1861 to 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 579. Annual Communication of the Mayor, and Reports of Departments, of the City of Louisville, (Louisville: Bradley & Gilbert, 1867), p. 1. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 291. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819615. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1859), 308. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 307. KYR-0001-017-0062. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Louisville City Court O001838 1850 Categories: Organizations

Police court with jurisdiction in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. Judge(s): George W. Johnston. City Attorney(s): William G. Reasor, Robert J. Elliott. Clerk(s): Oliver H. Strattan (1861), J. Phillip Tomppert, Jr.

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, 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. Edwards’ Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6, ed. Edwards, Greenough, & Deved (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1866), 155. J. D. Campbell’s Louisville Business Directory for 1864, ed. J. D. Campbell (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Publisher, Bookseller, Printer and Bookbinder, 1864), 70. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 323-24. City Work House of Louisville O00012610 1832 1954 Categories: Organizations

Louisville, Kentucky workhouse. Organized in 1832 to house male and female petty criminals, the poor, "those of bad repute," and those with infectious diseases. Managed by a committee of three trustees and a superintendent, with daily operations overseen by an elected keeper. Superintendent(s): Trustee(s): Keeper(s): M. G. Holmes (1861), James Kirkpatrick (1864).

"Board of Aldermen: Joint Session," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), October 19, 1861, p. 1. Charter of the City of Louisville, Ky. (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Printer, 1862), 332-36. "Council," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), October 14, 1864, p. 3. "Louisville City Workhouse," Kentucky Historic Institutions, accessed January 26, 2022, https://kyhi.org/louisville-city-workhouse/. Morton O. Childress, Louisville Division of Police History and Personnel (Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Company, 2005), 62. Gary Falk, Louisville Remembered (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009) 112-13. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Petition 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 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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To his Excellency Thomas -- E. Bramlette Governor of Kentucky

You Petitioner Frances Stewart would respectfully state that she was fined one hundred dollars at the November Term of the City Court of Louisville for renting a house to be kept for bawdy purposes.

Your petitioner did rent a house to Alice Smith who was a woman of evil fame, the house was sublet by petitioner. It was admitted on the trial by the attorney for the city that petitioner was used as a tool for others who were wiser than she was. In fact petitioner was employed to rent the house by a man who wished to evade the law. He succeeded & petitioner was left to satisfy the law that had been violated unwittingly by petitioner. Your petitioner is a colored woman, unable to reade, & did not know at the time that the law forbade the renting of houses to women of evil fame. The rent was paid to the owner of the house, & no benefit accrued to petitioners. Your petitioner has replevied the fine & cost amounting to $144 00/00 by pledging all of her house hold furniture, which if taken will strip her of every thing she has in the world. She is old & unable to make a living if thus deprived

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of her property. She is unable to pay the find without giving up all she has & she prays your Excellency to remit the amount

Respectfully Frances ^her x mark^ Stewart

Governor Bramlette Dear Sir

I defended old Frances Stewart on the above Charge, & could have proved that she was put forward to pull the Chestnut out of the fire, that a white man might save his own fingers; the man had been previously fined for the same offense & to avoid a fine he got the poor old negro to rent it. I think old Fannie perfectly innocent of violating the law knowingly. After she was fined she was arrested on a Copias & to keep out of the work house she mortgaged all she had in the world. If she has to pay the fine & cost which amounts to $144 it will take all she has. I think it a case where the Governor should interpose & save the old woman. I hope you will remit it

Respectfully

J. Hop. Price

I did make the admission, as stated in the foregoing petition, & believe the same to be true

W, G Reasor atty