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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, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-005-0007 BR7-10

Marion County, Indiana Dexter B. Hodgett (Lake County, Indiana, postmaster.) N00005187 Categories: People

Lake County, Indiana, postmaster. Postmaster for Clarke Station in Lake County, Indiana, from October 14, 1862, to October 31, 1862.

Relationships Legal: Esther Ritche (Mattie Clarke; Fanny Barton) (Lake County, Indiana)

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Lake County, Indiana, vol. 25A, p. 186. Esther Ritche (Mattie Clarke; Fanny Barton) (Lake County, Indiana) N00005189 Categories: People

Charged with larceny in Lake County, Indiana, in 1863. Fugitive from justice in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1863.

Relationships Legal: James S. Athon (Marion County, IN, physician and Secretary of State) Legal: Dexter B. Hodgett (Lake County, Indiana, postmaster.) Legal: State of Indiana Legal: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)

KYR-0001-005-0007. KYR-0001-006-0009. Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) N00005190 1823-08-04 1877-11-01 Categories: People

Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician. Wayne County, Indiana, native. Son of James Throck Morton and Sarah Miller Morton. Married to Lucinda M. Burbank Morton in Wayne County, Indiana, on May 15, 1845. Father of John M. Morton, Mary E. Morton, Lilias Morton, Walter S. Morton, and Oliver Throck Morton. Attended Miami University in Butler County, Ohio, in 1843. Read law with John S. Newman in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1845. Admitted to the bar in Indiana in 1847. Attorney in Wayne County in 1850. Circuit judge for the 6th Judicial District of the State of Indiana in 1852. Member of the Republic Party. Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of the State of Indiana in 1856. Attorney in Wayne County in 1860. Lieutenant Governor of the State of Indiana from January 14, 1861, to January 16, 1861. Governor of the State of Indiana from January 16, 1861, to January 24, 1867, following the resignation of Henry S. Lane.

Relationships Legal: Charles B. Lewis, Jr. (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Vanderburgh Circuit Court Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: State of Indiana Political: Government of the United States of America Political: Executive Department, Indiana Military: United States War Department Military: 57th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: Warren Horr (Clark County, Indiana, sheriff, merchant, capt & maj 4th IN Cav USA) Political: William A. Peelle (Randolph County, Indiana, attorney and secretary of state) Legal: Francis "Frank" Smith (Clark County, Indiana, day laborer) Political: Jesse Franklin Hammon (Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship carpenter and policeman) Political: Sally E. Grant (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Political: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: James S. Athon (Marion County, IN, physician and Secretary of State) Legal: Charles W. White (Garrard County Kentucky. ) Legal: James Slaughter (Garrard County, Kentucky, resident.) Legal: Green Slaughter (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: David C. Hall (Meade County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Adam Stephens (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, grocer. ) Political: Willis Marion Hughes (Clark County, IN, resident) Political: William J. Roberts (Clark County, Indiana, farm laborer. Fugitive from justice.) Political: William T. Pratt (Allen County, Indiana, sheriff) Political: Charles P. Jacobs (Indianapolis, Indiana, attorney, deputy clerk, and private sec. to Gov. Oliver P. Morton) Political: James Blythe Hynes (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney and major (U.S.A.)) Political: Charles Emerson Marsh (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney ) Legal: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant) Legal: Andrew Lucas Robinson (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, politician, attorney, and customs surveyor) Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Sheriff of Clark County, Indiana, in 1865.) Legal: Samuel H. McCarty (Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, farmer and fugitive from justice) Legal: John Rider (Clark County, Indiana, fugitive from justice.) Legal: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Legal: Melvin Weir (Clark County, Indiana, farmer, soldier, and justice of the peace.) Political: William H. Evans (Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot) Political: Indiana State Prison South

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Centerville, p. 170B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Centerville, p. 21. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis Ward 9, p. 592A. William Dudley Foulke, Life of Oliver P. Morton: Including His Important Speeches, vol. I (Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1899). A. James Fuller, Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction (Kent, OH.: Kent State University Press, 2017). Oliver P. Morton of Indiana: Sketch of His Life and Public Services (Indianapolis, IN: Journal Company, Printers, 1876). Charles Manning Walker, Sketch of the Life, Character, and Public Services of Oliver P. Morton (Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Journal, 1878). "Lilias Morton (1850-1852)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78619930, accessed September 7, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78619930. "Mary E Morton (1848-1849)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78620060, accessed September 7, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78620060. 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. Charles Fisher (JP in Marion County, IN) N00005191 1820? Categories: People

Tailor and Justice of the Peace in Marion County, Indiana. Native of France. Married to Ellen Fisher. Father of Edward Fisher, Ellen Fisher, Margaret Fisher, Abalene Fisher, Charles Fisher, and Andrew Fisher. Tailor in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1860. Justice of the Peace in Marion County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Esther Ritche (Mattie Clarke; Fanny Barton) (Lake County, Indiana) Legal: Dexter B. Hodgett (Lake County, Indiana, postmaster.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Indianapolis Ward 7, p. 82-83. KYR-0001-005-0007. William Wallace (Clerk Marion Circuit Court (IN)) N00005192 1825-10-16 1891-04-09 Categories: People

Indianapolis, Indiana, attorney and court clerk. Indiana native. Son of David Wallace and Esther Wallace. Married to Cordelia Butler Wallace. Father of Esther Wallace, Zerelda Wallace, Lewis Wallace, Ovid Wallace, and Annie Wallace. Attorney in Indianapolis in 1860. Employed Kate May as a servant in Indianapolis in 1860. Clerk of the Marion County Circuit Court in Indianapolis in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: Charles Fisher (JP in Marion County, IN) Legal: Esther Ritche (Mattie Clarke; Fanny Barton) (Lake County, Indiana)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Marion County, Second Ward Indianapolis, p. 143. KYR-0001-005-0007. Find A Grave, "William Wallace (1825-1891)," Memorial #39864727, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39864727 (accessed February 5, 2018). Indiana P001818 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Indianapolis. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Michigan.

39.7684, -86.158 Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, ed. David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994), 52. William Vincent D'Antonio and Robert L. Beck, "Indiana," Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed September 11, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Indiana-state. "Indianapolis, Indiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Marion County, Indiana P00005186 Categories: Places

County in central Indiana. Seat at Indianapolis.

39.7684, -86.158 Ronald L. Baker and Marvin Carmony, Indiana Place Names (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 98. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Indianapolis, Indiana," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 15, 2021). Clarke Station, Indiana P00007335 Categories: Places

Located in Lake County, Indiana.

41.4897, -87.3016 William Frederick Howat, ed., A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet Region, Vol. 1 (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1915), 131. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

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

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Marion Circuit Court (Indiana) O00005193 1822 Categories: Organizations

Court held in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Relationships Legal: William Wallace (Clerk Marion Circuit Court (IN)) Legal: Charles Fisher (JP in Marion County, IN) Legal: Esther Ritche (Mattie Clarke; Fanny Barton) (Lake County, Indiana) Legal: Dexter B. Hodgett (Lake County, Indiana, postmaster.)

B. r. Sulgrove, History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, Part 1 (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1884), 178-80. Marion County, Indiana 1863-11-12 Legal/Financial 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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I Dexter B Hodges being duly sworn saith that on or about the 17 day of April A D 1863, at Clarke Station in the said Conty and state aforesaid One Esther Ritche alias Maty Clarke alias Fany Barton did there and then unlawfully, and Feloneousley take steal and cary away 3 three united states tresury notes to the value of ten dollars each and to the value of 5 Dolers, als 1 lot of writenappeals ^to the value of 50 Dollrs^ all the Goods and Chatles of this affavidt contra to the statue in such cases made and provided and that this affadiant further belives that the said Ester Ritche alias Maty Clarke alias Fany Barton is now inLouisville Kentucy and escaped from Justice and further prays that Your Exly Gov O. P. Morton will isue his rqustion upon the Gov of Knetacy to deliver to the agent you may apoint the said Esthr Richr alias Maty Clarke alias Fany Barton to be return to Justice in the County and state aforsaid all of which is true as affidavit verey beleve.

Dexter B Hodgett

Sworn and subcribed before me this 12 day of November, A D 1863.

Charles Fisher J P

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State of Indiana, Marion County, Sct.

I, William Wallace clerk of the Marion Circuit Court do hereby Certify that Charles Fisher Esqr is an acting Justice of the peace of Marion County state of Indiana duly elected, Commissioned and qualified; that full faith and credit are due all his official acts; and that that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In witness where of I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this 12th day of November AD. 1863

William Wallace clk