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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, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-006-0005 BR6-5 to BR6-5-1

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky William Zimmerman (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Victim of alleged theft by Christian Hoffner in in Louisville in 1862.) N00019665 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Married to Rosa Gebhard in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on June 29, 1863.

Relationships Legal: Jacob B. Ehrich (Louisville, Ky, Police Dept; "always wore a silk hat") Legal: Delos T. Bligh (Louisville, Kentucky, bricklayer and police officer, detective) Legal: City of Louisville Police Department Legal: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Legal: Christian Hafner (Fugitive in Indiana.)

Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954, Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482709. KYR-0001-006-0005. Christian Hafner (Fugitive in Indiana.) N00006286 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Accused of theft committed against William Zimmerman in Louisville in 1862. Reported as a fugitive from justice in Indiana in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Delos T. Bligh (Louisville, Kentucky, bricklayer and police officer, detective) Legal: Jacob B. Ehrich (Louisville, Ky, Police Dept; "always wore a silk hat")

KYR-0001-005-0001. KYR-0001-006-0005. 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. Delos T. Bligh (Louisville, Kentucky, bricklayer and police officer, detective) N00005178 1823-03-19 1890-03-01 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, bricklayer, soldier, police officer and detective. Delaware County, New York, native. Married to Cassandra "Kate" Davis Bligh. Father of Mary Bligh and Emma Bligh. Married Kate Ovington Bligh in 1859. Father of Anna Bligh, Amy Bligh, and Lois Bligh. Served in the Louisville Legion (U.S.A.) as a private from May 1846 to November 1846. Deputy city marshal in Louisville in 1847. Bricklayer in Louisville in 1850. Police officer and detective in Louisville from 1856 to 1890.

Relationships Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: William K. Thomas (Jefferson County, Kentucky, jailer) Legal: Christian Hafner (Fugitive in Indiana.) Legal: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Legal: David Owen (Carroll County, Kentucky, jailer..) Legal: William Shriver (Jefferson County, Kentucky, student, laborer, corporal, quartermaster sergeant, adjutant, second lieutenant, and first lieutenant (U.S.A.))

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 321B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 702. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 507A. "His Life Ended," The Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), March 2, 1890, p. 9. Morton O. Childress, Louisville Division of Police: History and Personnel (Louisville, KY: Turner Publishing Co., 2005), 11, 76. "Delos Thurman Bligh (1823-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial 6942591, accessed May,18, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6942591. 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. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). 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/. 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. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-09-09 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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The State of Kentucky County of Jefferson } S.S.

This day William Zimmerman made oath before me a Justice of the peace for said county that Christian Hoffner did on the day of 1862 in the City of Louisville Jefferson County Kentucky feloniously take steal and carry away from the said William Zimmerman one Gold watch and chain worth $70.00 the property of the said William Zimmerman also that the said Christian Hoffner, at the same time and place did feloniously, take, steal, and carry away from the said William Zimmerman one double cased silver hour watch worth $25.00 $37.50 in Gold coins of the United States $60.00 in Bank notes worth $60.00 and $3.00 in silver coin of the United States, one satin vest worth $10.00 seven shirts worth $20.00 all the property of the said William Zimmerman and that the said Christian Hoffner has since the Commission of said felony as afsd; been a fugitive from Justice (his wherabouts unknown until recently) and is now runing at large in the state of Indiana

Willm Zimmerman

Subscribed and sworn to before me by William Zimmerman this 9th day of September 1863

Jos Clement. J. P. J. C

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Affidavit of William Zimmerman as to a felony Committed by Christian Hoffner Jefferson County Requisition issued 10th Sept 1863 And D. T. Bligh apptd Agent