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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-0001-005-0018 BR7-28

Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky Fabricius C. McCalla (Georgetown, Kentucky, cashier.) N00005219 1807-07-22 1873-04-16 Categories: People

Georgetown, Kentucky, cashier, politician, trustee, and postmaster. Kentucky native. Postmaster of Stamping Ground, Kentucky, from 1834 to 1840. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County in 1839. Cashier at the Farmers Bank of Georgetown from 1860 to 1863. Trustee at Georgetown College in Georgetown.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Scott County, Georgetown, p. 13. The Bankers Magazine and Statistical Register, vol. 10, ed. J. Smith Homans (New York: J. Smith Homans, 1860), 995. The Bankers Magazine and Statistical Register, vol. 13, ed. J. Smith Homans (New York: J. Smith Homans, July 1863), 29. “Fabricius C. McCalla (1807-1873),” Find A Grave, Memorial #75724530, accessed June 3, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75724530. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 697. John G. Morrison (Scott County, Kentucky, judge and private banker) N00005217 1810-10 1884-01-21 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, judge, farmer, manufacturer, and banker. Ohio native. Married to Nancy Buford Johnson Morrison on September 1, 1836. Father of Edward Ann Morrison, Helen S. Morrison, Nancy J. Morrison, Adelaide Morrison, and John W. Morrison. Farmer and manufacturer in Scott County in 1850. Owned twenty-three enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Private banker in Scott County in 1860. Owned twenty-two enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Judge of Scott County Court in Scott County in 1864.

Relationships Legal: John Spencer (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Rial [Unknown] (Scott County, KY, enslaved person) Legal: William B. Galloway (Scott Co, KY, farmer) Political: Scott County Court Political: Bennett Branham (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer ) Political: Joel Ammerman (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer ) Legal: Flavius Josephus Dehoney (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Legal: Joseph E. Gregg (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer, nurseryman, and justice of the peace)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 460A-B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 633. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, Georgetown, p. 1006. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 234B, 235A, 236B, and 237B. "John G. Morrison (unknown-1884)," Find A Grave, Memorial #99164909, accessed May, 31, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99164909. KYR-0001-005-0017. Rial [Unknown] (Scott County, KY, enslaved person) N00005214 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, enslaved person. Enslaved by W. B. Galaway. Accused of murdering Jeremiah Martin in 1864. Fugitive from Scott County in January 1864.

Relationships Slavery: William B. Galloway (Scott Co, KY, farmer) Legal: Jeremiah Martin (Scott County, KY, stonemason) Social: David C. Covington (Owen, Scott Counties, KY, millwright, pvt in 9th KY Cav USA)

KYR-0001-005-0017. David C. Covington (Owen, Scott Counties, KY, millwright, pvt in 9th KY Cav USA) N00005216 1835? 1863-08-11 Categories: People

Owen County, Kentucky, millwright and soldier. Kentucky native. Millwright in Owen County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from August 22, 1862, until his death on August 11, 1863. Allegedly killed by John Spencer in Stamping Ground, Kentucky.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1, p. 27. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 095. KYR-0001-005-0017. 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. Georgetown, Kentucky P001838 Categories: Places

Seat of Scott County, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 “Georgetown,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 371. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Farmers' Bank of Kentucky at Georgetown O001021 Categories: Organizations

Located at Georgetown, Kentucky. President(s): James F. Robinson. Cashier(s): Fabricius C. McCalla.

J. Smith Homans, ed., The Bankers Magazine and Statistical Register, vol. 10 (New York: J. Smith Homans, 1860), 995. J. Smith Homans, ed., The Bankers Magazine and Statistical Register, vol. 13 (July 1863), 29. Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky 1864-01-23 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 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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Office FARMERS BANK of KENTUCKY, F. C. McCALLA, Cash. Georgetown, Jany 23 1864 My DrFriend

I enclose Judge Morrisons petition to the Gov to advertise for the Boy I wrote you about -- Wish very much he may do it as I have no doubt he could be found if it is done

Very humly Yrs F. C. McCalla

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Reward of $100 for Rial (slave) & $250. for the murder of Covington

Tho E Bramlette