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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-0001-006-0049 BR6-56

Louisville, Jefferson 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. Ellen M. Thompson Sharpe Reeder (Louisville, Kentucky, fugitive from justice) N00020345 1810 1873-02-04 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, fugitive from justice. Indiana native. Married to James M. Sharpe in Clark County, Indiana, on March 16, 1830. Married to Charles T. Reeder in Clark County, Indiana, on February 6, 1832. Mother of Elizabeth Reeder Wheeler and John Thompson Reeder. Resident of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1850. Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860. Indicted for arson in Louisville in December 1864. Fugitive from justice in 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, p. 132B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 185. Indiana Marriage Records, 1801-1952, Indiana Archives and Record Administration, Office of the Clark County Clerk. Clark County, Indiana, Marriage Records, volume C, 1828-1834, p. 78. Indiana Marriage Records, 1801-1952, Indiana Archives and Record Administration, Office of the Clark County Clerk. Clark County, Indiana, Marriage Records, volume C, 1828-1834, p. 81. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 256. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 28833. "Burned to Death," New Orleans Republican, (New Orleans, LA), 9 Feb 1873, p. 5. "The River," Times-Picayune, (New Orleans, LA), 12 Feb 1873, p. 2. "Captain John T. Reeder," Times-Picayune, (New Orleans, LA), 26 Nov 1900, p. 3. William H. Evans (Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot) N00020346 1817? 1891-03-10 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot. Kentucky native. Married to Ann Evans. Married to Louisa Lentz Evans in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on April 26, 1852. Father of Mary Evans, Susan Evans, Sallie Evans, Julia Evans, Emma Evans, and Richard Evans. Resident of Louisville in 1850. Steamboat pilot in Louisville in 1858. Steamboat pilot in Louisville in 1860. Steamboat pilot in Louisville in 1861. Steamboat pilot in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Ellen M. Thompson Sharpe Reeder (Louisville, Kentucky, fugitive from justice)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 203B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 8, p. 663. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 23. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707, p. 141. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 360. Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 60. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 84. Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 292. Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) N00005190 1823-08-04 1877-11-01 Categories: People

Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician. Wayne County, Indiana, native. Son of James Throck Morton and Sarah Miller Morton. Married to Lucinda M. Burbank Morton in Wayne County, Indiana, on May 15, 1845. Father of John M. Morton, Mary E. Morton, Lilias Morton, Walter S. Morton, and Oliver Throck Morton. Attended Miami University in Butler County, Ohio, in 1843. Read law with John S. Newman in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1845. Admitted to the bar in Indiana in 1847. Attorney in Wayne County in 1850. Circuit judge for the 6th Judicial District of the State of Indiana in 1852. Member of the Republic Party. Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of the State of Indiana in 1856. Attorney in Wayne County in 1860. Lieutenant Governor of the State of Indiana from January 14, 1861, to January 16, 1861. Governor of the State of Indiana from January 16, 1861, to January 24, 1867, following the resignation of Henry S. Lane.

Relationships Legal: Charles B. Lewis, Jr. (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Vanderburgh Circuit Court Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: State of Indiana Political: Government of the United States of America Political: Executive Department, Indiana Military: United States War Department Military: 57th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: Warren Horr (Clark County, Indiana, sheriff, merchant, capt & maj 4th IN Cav USA) Political: William A. Peelle (Randolph County, Indiana, attorney and secretary of state) Legal: Francis "Frank" Smith (Clark County, Indiana, day laborer) Political: Jesse Franklin Hammon (Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship carpenter and policeman) Political: Sally E. Grant (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Political: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: James S. Athon (Marion County, IN, physician and Secretary of State) Legal: Charles W. White (Garrard County Kentucky. ) Legal: James Slaughter (Garrard County, Kentucky, resident.) Legal: Green Slaughter (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: David C. Hall (Meade County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Adam Stephens (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, grocer. ) Political: Willis Marion Hughes (Clark County, IN, resident) Political: William J. Roberts (Clark County, Indiana, farm laborer. Fugitive from justice.) Political: William T. Pratt (Allen County, Indiana, sheriff) Political: Charles P. Jacobs (Indianapolis, Indiana, attorney, deputy clerk, and private sec. to Gov. Oliver P. Morton) Political: James Blythe Hynes (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney and major (U.S.A.)) Political: Charles Emerson Marsh (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney ) Legal: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant) Legal: Andrew Lucas Robinson (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, politician, attorney, and customs surveyor) Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Sheriff of Clark County, Indiana, in 1865.) Legal: Samuel H. McCarty (Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, farmer and fugitive from justice) Legal: John Rider (Clark County, Indiana, fugitive from justice.) Legal: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Legal: Melvin Weir (Clark County, Indiana, farmer, soldier, and justice of the peace.) Political: William H. Evans (Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot) Political: Indiana State Prison South

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Centerville, p. 170B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Centerville, p. 21. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis Ward 9, p. 592A. William Dudley Foulke, Life of Oliver P. Morton: Including His Important Speeches, vol. I (Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1899). A. James Fuller, Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction (Kent, OH.: Kent State University Press, 2017). Oliver P. Morton of Indiana: Sketch of His Life and Public Services (Indianapolis, IN: Journal Company, Printers, 1876). Charles Manning Walker, Sketch of the Life, Character, and Public Services of Oliver P. Morton (Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Journal, 1878). "Lilias Morton (1850-1852)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78619930, accessed September 7, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78619930. "Mary E Morton (1848-1849)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78620060, accessed September 7, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78620060. Carter Woodford Tiller (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and deputy city marshal) N00005412 1818-08-25 1897-01-18 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and city marshal. Spotsylvania County, Virginia native. Son of George Tiller and Lucy Mills Tiller. Married to Sophronia Beeler Tiller in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on October 10, 1838. Father of George Tiller, Theodore Tiller, Leslie Tiller, Alice Tiller, Mollie Tiller, and Prentice Tiller. Plasterer in Louisville in 1845. Plasterer in Louisville in 1850. Policeman in Louisville from 1852 through 1865. Sergeant at arms of the Louisville Common Council in 1858 and 1859. Deputy city marshal in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Traugott Krachrugge (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Legal: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: Logan Adams Wood (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder, and politician) Political: William H. Evans (Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Legal: Ellen M. Thompson Sharpe Reeder (Louisville, Kentucky, fugitive from justice)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 15B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville, District 2, p. 364. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 532A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482706, p. 55. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 28819, State 410. John B. Jegli’s Louisville, New Albany, Jeffersonville, Shippingport, and Portland Directory for 1845-1846, (Louisville, The Louisville Journal, 1845), 174. "Runaway Captured," Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), 26 Aug 1856, p. 3. "Untitled," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 6 April 1859, p. 3. "Untitled," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 12 Jan 1863, p. 3. "Carter Tiller Dead." Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 19 Jan 1897, p. 8. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 246. Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 567. "Carter W. Tiller (1818-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial 77034411, accessed September 20, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77034411. Logan Adams Wood (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder, and politician) N00000975 1829? 1904-01-18 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder and politician. Kentucky native. Son of Elias Wood and Jane Wood. Married to Mary Jane Burkart Wood in Pulaski County, Kentucky, on October 24, 1852. Father of William Wood, Lilly Wood, Mattie Wood, John H. Wood, Logan Wood, and Rice Wood. Resident of Pulaski County in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Pulaski County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1852. Attorney in Pulaski County from 1852 to 1860. Editor of the True American newspaper in Pulaski County from 1857 to 1859. Bookbinder in partnership with Lewis A. Civill in Louisville from 1860 to 1861. Attorney in Louisville from 1863 through 1865. Notary public in Louisville in 1863. Member of the Louisville City Council in 1865. Bookbinder in partnership with Lewis A. Civill in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Henry Vonderheide (Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1863/Husband of [unknown] Vonderheider) Social: [Unknown] Schofield (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: William H. Evans (Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot) Legal: Ellen M. Thompson Sharpe Reeder (Louisville, Kentucky, fugitive from justice) Legal: Carter Woodford Tiller (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and deputy city marshal) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, District 2, p. 115A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, District 2, p. 7. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski, Somerset, District 1, p. 154. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 101, p. 61-62. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages, p. 1. "The Press Advertising," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 14 Dec 1857, p. 2. "L.A. Wood, Esq." Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 28 June 1859, p. 1. "Copartnership," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 26 Sept 1860, p. 2. "Jefferson County Court," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 3 Feb 1863, p. 3. "Remains Will Be Sent to Falls City," The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY), January 19, 1904, p. 3. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Henry Tanner, 1861), 55, 267. Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 55, 602. H. Charles Ulman, Lawyers' Record and Official Register of the United States, (New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1872), p. 528. KYR-0001-004-0264. KYR-0001-006-0049. 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). Jeffersonville, Indiana P00013820 Categories: Places

City in Clark County, Indiana. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2776, -85.7372 Lewis C. Baird, Baird's History of Clark County, Indiana (Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1909), 49. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Jeffersonville, Indiana," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on December 7, 2020). 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/. Jefferson Circuit Court O001000 1850 Categories: Organizations

Part of the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky. Serves Jefferson County, Kentucky, with courthouse at Louisville. Judge(s): Peter B. Muir, George W. Johnston. Commonwealth's Attorney(s): Edwin S. Craig, James R. Dupuy. Clerk(s): James P. Chambers

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough, & Deved, pub., 1866), 155. J. D. Campbell’s Louisville Business Directory for 1864, ed. J. D. Campbell (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Publisher, Bookseller, Printer and Bookbinder, 1864), 70. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 324. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1864-12-02 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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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Louisville Ky December 2d 1864 To His Excellency Gove Thos E. Bramltette

Dear Sir. Nellie Reeder was indicted by the Grand Jury at the present term of the Jefferson Circuit court upon a charge of Arson. She failed to appear to answer to her bond. I, and one Wm Evans are her bail. We believe she is in Jeffersonville Indianna. I Send you a copy of the Indictment; and we desire a requisition upon Gove Morton of Ind. for the accused Nellie Reeder. I believe a copy of the Indictment is all that is necessary to procure a requisition. She is a fugitive from Justice from this State. from Carter Tiller, a police man of this city. desire to go after her and he is a Suitable person to go after her

Will you please enclose the necessary requisition for her.

Yours Truly L. A. Wood.

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Jefferson Cir Ct Indiana

Requisition for Nelly Reeder & appointment of Carter Tiller 5th Dec/64