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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-0001-005-0057 BR7-99

Jefferson County, Kentucky William McKenzie (Jefferson County, KY, Engineer in U.S. Navy) N00005308 Categories: People

Engineer in the U.S. Navy. Suspected William Krachahone of robbing him.

Relationships Military: United States Navy Legal: William Krachahone (Jefferson co. criminal) Legal: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace)

KYR-0001-005-0057. William Krachahone (Jefferson co. criminal) N00005309 Categories: People

Also went by the aliases George A. Miller and William Ashton. Mentioned in an affidavit in 1865 by William McKenzie.

Relationships Legal: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace)

KYR-0001-005-0057. 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. Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) N00002909 1819? 1882-01-26 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace. New Hampshire native. Married to Sarah Adams Clement in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on December 15, 1840. Father of Charles Clement, Josephine Clement, Mary Clement, Corinna Clement, James Clement, George A. Clement, William B. Clement, Henry C. Clement, and John S. Clement. Attorney in Louisville in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1850. Justice of the peace in Louisville in 1861. Justice of the peace in Louisville in 1862. Justice of the peace in Louisville in 1863.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Andrew Braden (Soldier in 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry) Legal: James Harris (Mattoon, Illinois, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Traugott Krachrugge (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Political: Calvin Fairbank (United States abolitionist) Legal: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Legal: T. E. Dennis (Louisville, Kentucky) Legal: Anna Schmitt (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Mary Schmitt Yanner (Maria Jannar) (Louisville, Kentucky, seamstress) Legal: Charles Harper (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage trimmer) Legal: Charles S. Glass (Jefferson County, Kentucky, steamboat mate and day policeman) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3. p. 291A-B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3. p. 814. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 8, p. 94B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 199. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000817881. KYR-0001-031-0009. KYR-0001-033-0033. Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. 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. United States Navy O00005307 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of marine units and ships in the United States government. Commander(s): Charles Stewart, David Farragut.

Craig L. Symonds, The U.S. Navy: A Concise History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). Jefferson County, Kentucky 1865-02-27 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 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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TheState of Kentucky County of Jefferson

This day William McKinzie (Enjineer of the United States Navy) made oath before me that on the 25th day of February 1865 in the City of Louisville Ky. a felony was committed by the felonious stealing and carrying away from the person and pocket of the offiant, (Wm McKinzie) six fifty d United States Treasury note of which were compound into notes and the other a fifty dollar Treasury note worth fifty dollars Each amounting in all to the sum of three hundred dollars in money, and one twenty dollar gold piece, also a diamond cluster ring with six setts worth $1500,00 and that he has good grounds to suspect and verily believes that William Krachahone alias George A Miller, alias William aAshton has been guilty of the crime of feloniously stealing and carrying away from the said Wm McKenzie the aforesaid money and property, and that the said William Krachahone alias George A Miller, Alias William Ashton is now a fugitive from Justice at larg in the state of

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and thus this affidavit is made for the purpose of geting a requisition for him from the Govonr of said state Kentucky to of the Governor of the state of

Wm McKenzie

Subscribed and sworn to before me by William McKenzie this 27th day of Feb 1865.

Jos Clement Justice of the peace Jeff Co Ky

Requisition Affidavit for Requisition issued 5th May 1865

(Forwarded)