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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-0001-005-0049 BR7-84 to BR7-85

Lancaster, Garrard 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. John Tanner (Garrard Co. ) N00005285 Categories: People

Accused of arson and of the murder of his wife, two children, and sister-in-law. Escaped the Garrard County Jail on July 15, 1864.

KYR-0001-005-0049. Nicholas Sandifer (Judge of Garrard County Court) N00004743 1818-03-18 1905-02-24 Categories: People

Lancaster, Kentucky, county judge. Kentucky native. Married to Mary J. Green Sandifer in Garrard County, Kentucky, on August 14, 1845. Presiding judge of Garrard County Court from c1860 to c1864.

Relationships Legal: Garrard County Court Legal: John Tanner (Garrard Co. ) Legal: William Jennings Landram (Garrard County, Kentucky, clerk and colonel 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Garrard County Home Guard

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard, Lancaster, p. 4. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #000183256, Garrard County Marriages, p. 35. Nicholas Sandifer, “Autobiography: Of Judge Nicholas Sandifer,” The Register of Kentucky Historical Society 60, No. 3 (July, 1962), 167-82. Find A Grave, “Judge Nicholas Sandifer (March 18, 1818-February 24, 1905),” Memorial #82074083, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82074083 (accessed June 4, 2017). Lancaster, Kentucky P001842 Categories: Places

Seat of Garrard County, Kentucky.

37.6195, -84.578 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 165. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Lancaster, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on November 23, 2020). Garrard County Court O00000630 Categories: Organizations

Located in Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Nicholas Sandifer. Clerk(s): W. J. Landrum, James H. Smith, and W. H. Wherritt.

Relationships Legal: John Tanner (Garrard Co. )

“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. Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky 1864-07-20 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Lancaster Ky. July. 20/64 Gov. Bramlet

John Tanner was Committed to the Garrard County Jail for the alleged murder of his wife, two children and sister-in law and for Arson -- he escaped the Jail on the night of the 15. -- inst and is now going at large --

He is about 35 or 40 years old. 5 feet six or Eight inches high, dark hair rather sallow complectxion-- weighs about 135lbs has a stopage ^or stammering^ in his speech-- articulates imperfect, and in the habit of repeating the last words of every sentence -- at first the impression is made that he is simple minded or foolish --

I suggest a reward for his apprehension

yours truly N SandiferP, J, G, C, C

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Garrard Co Reward $300, for John Tanner 22d July/64