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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-0001-005-0071 BR7-113

Mount Sterling, Montgomery 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. Garrett Ballard (Montgomery County, Kentucky, farmer) N00005330 1807? Categories: People

Montgomery County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Rachel Ballard. Father of Thomas Ballard, Mary J. Ballard, Arabella Ballard, John Ballard, Melvina Ballard, Eliza Ballard, John W. Ballard, Elizabeth Ballard, and Cestra Ballard. Farmer in Montgomery County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: James P. Poynter (Montgomery County) Legal: Richard Apperson, Jr. (11th District Circuit Judge) Legal: Montgomery Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery, District 2, p. 70. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery, not stated, p. 43. [unknown] Poynter (Montgomery County) N00005332 Categories: People

Mentioned in a letter from William H. Holt to Thomas E. Bramlette. Likely a relative of James P. Poynter, who was killed by Garrett Ballard.

Relationships Legal: Garrett Ballard (Montgomery County, Kentucky, farmer)

KYR-0001-005-0071. William Henry Holt (Montgomery County, Kentucky, attorney.) N00001939 1842-11-29 1919-03-06 Categories: People

Montgomery County, Kentucky, attorney. Bath County, Kentucky, native. Son of Gideon Joseph Holt and Fanny Tyler Holt. Married to Sarah Roberts Holt on October 19, 1864.Graduated from Albany University in Albany County, New York, in 1862. Admitted to the New York bar in 1862. Attorney in Montgomery County, Kentucky, in June 1863.

Relationships Legal: [unknown] Poynter (Montgomery County) Legal: Garrett Ballard (Montgomery County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Ezekiel E. Garrett (Montgomery County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: Powell Circuit Court

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Mt. Sterling, p. 307A. "Judge Holt Will Accept," The Daily Leader (Lexington, KY), June 5, 1900, p. 3. E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), pp. 1048-1049. "William Henry Holt (1842-1919)," Find A Grave, Memorial 143073707, accessed September 30, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143073707. Mount Sterling, Kentucky P00001936 Categories: Places

Seat of Montgomery County, Kentucky.

38.0565, -83.9433 "Mount Sterling, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 27, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 205. Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky 1865-07-26 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Mt Sterling Ky July 26th 1865 His Excellency Thos E Bramlette Governor of Kentucky Governor,

Enclosed you will find a Petition signed by our Judge, asking that a Reward be offered for the arrest of Garrett Ballard

You will remember I mentioned the matter to you when here, and you said you would offer the Reward, but the Statutes must be complied with first: which I think has now been done: and I think the Petition states all that is needful. Excuse me for troubling you with my letters so often. Hoping you will offer the reward as asked by Mr Poynter,

I am Your Obdt Servt William H. Holt