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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-0001-006-0072 BR6-87 to BR6-88

Kenton County, Kentucky Andrew J. Surface (Ohio farmhand and soldier.) N00021106 1843 1919 Categories: People

Ohio, farmhand and soldier. Ohio native. Son of Adam J. Surface and Sarah Irick Surface. Farmhand in Cass County, Indiana, in 1860. Attended school in Cass County in 1860. Served in the 156th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from May 2, 1864, to September 1, 1864.

Relationships Familial: Elizabeth Snyder Surface (Ohio resident.) Familial: Adam J. Surface (Preble County, Ohio, farmer and fugitive from justice.) Legal: John Buckner Lendrum (Covington, Ky, justice of the peace, mayor pro tem, and bookkeeper) Legal: Sarah Irick Surface (Ohio resident.) Legal: Elizabeth Snyder Surface (Ohio resident.) Legal: Adam J. Surface (Preble County, Ohio, farmer and fugitive from justice.) Legal: Ninth Judicial District of Kentucky Legal: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Cass County, Tipton Township, p. 594. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Ohio, Butler County, Oxford Township, p. 365B. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, vol. IX (Cincinnati, OH: The Ohio Valley Press, 1889), 241. "CPL Andrew Jay Surface (1843-1919)," Find A Grave, Memorial 137124576, accessed November 15, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137124576. Elizabeth Snyder Surface (Ohio resident.) N00021108 1838-09-15 1917-10-25 Categories: People

Ohio resident. Ohio native. Married to Adam J. Surface in Kenton County, Kentucky, on March 19, 1864. Mother of James Surface. Resident of Ohio in 1864. Accused of bigamy in Kenton County, Kentucky, in 1865.

Relationships Familial: [Unknown] Stover (Reported to be the husband of Elizabeth Snyder Surface.) Familial: Adam J. Surface (Preble County, Ohio, farmer and fugitive from justice.) Legal: Lafayette Shaw (Kenton County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: Moses Nelson (Preble County, Ohio, carpenter and agent of the State of Ohio.)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Ohio, Montgomery County, Wayne Township, p. 816B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Kenton County Marriages, Film 001943299. "Death of Mrs. Surface," Independence Daily Reporter (Independence, KS), October 25, 1917, p. 6. "Elizabeth E. Snyder Surface (1838-1917)," Find A Grave, Memorial 30260074, accessed November 15, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30260074. Adam J. Surface (Preble County, Ohio, farmer and fugitive from justice.) N00021105 1821-09-05 1910-02-03 Categories: People

Preble County, Ohio, farmer and fugitive from justice. Ohio native. Married to Sarah Irick Surface in Preble County, Ohio, in September 1840. Father of Andrew J. Surface, Lucinda Surface, Noah Surface, Huldah Surface, Susana Surface, Jacob Surface, Rhoda Surface, and Amanda Surface. Married to Elizabeth Snyder Surface in Kenton County, Kentucky, on March 19, 1864. Father of James Surface. Farmer in Cass County, Indiana, in 1860. Farmer in Preble County, Ohio, in 1863. Accused of bigamy in Kenton County, Kentucky, in 1865. Fugitive from justice in August 1865.

Relationships Familial: Andrew J. Surface (Ohio farmhand and soldier.) Legal: Moses Nelson (Preble County, Ohio, carpenter and agent of the State of Ohio.) Legal: Lafayette Shaw (Kenton County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Familial: Sarah Irick Surface (Ohio resident.) Familial: Elizabeth Snyder Surface (Ohio resident.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Cass County, Tipton Township, p. 594. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Ohio, Montgomery County, Wayne Township, p. 816B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Preble County, OH, June 1863, p. 13. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Kenton County Marriages, Film 001943299. "Adam Surface is Dead," The Evening Star (Independence, KS), February 7, 1910, p. 10. L. Wallace Duncan, History of Montgomery County, Kansas: By Its Own People (Iola, KS: Iola Register, 1903), 718. "Adam J. Surface (1821-1910)," Find A Grave, Memorial 30260062, accessed November 15, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30260062. KYR-0001-006-0073. KYR-0001-006-0075. [Unknown] Stover (Reported to be the husband of Elizabeth Snyder Surface.) N00021107 Categories: People

Reported to be the husband of Elizabeth Snyder Surface.

KYR-0001-006-0072. Lafayette Shaw (Kenton County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) N00000964 1825? 1912-11-10 Categories: People

Kenton County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Kentucky native. Son of Robert Shaw and Margret Morrin. Married to Harriet McDonald Shaw. Father of William M. Shaw. Teacher in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Kenton County in 1860. Presiding judge of the Kenton County Court from 1861 to 1865.

Relationships Political: G. Higgins (Kenton County (stub)) Political: Leonard Bhymer (Kenton County, Kentucky, farm laborer.) Economic: Kenton Circuit Court Legal: Elizabeth Snyder Surface (Ohio resident.) Legal: Adam J. Surface (Preble County, Ohio, farmer and fugitive from justice.) Legal: Kenton County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, District 2, p. 88A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, District 1, p. 428. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994043, Kenton County Births. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 28272. "Lafayette Shaw (1825-1912)," Find A Grave, Memorial 90470881, accessed November 20, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90470881. John Buckner Lendrum (Covington, Ky, justice of the peace, mayor pro tem, and bookkeeper) N00005627 1804 1878-05-27 Categories: People

Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, city clerk, bookkeeper, and politician. Virginia native. Son of Thomas Keith Lendrum and Margaret Stokes Lendrum. Married to Elizabeth Lendrum. Father of Thomas W. Lendrum, Harry S. Lendrum, and Lillie H. Lendrum. City clerk in Covington, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Kenton County in 1850. Bookkeeper in Covington in 1860. Employed Jane Blackburn and Frank Garrish as servants in Kenton County in 1860. Mayor of Covington in 1862. Justice of the peace in Kenton County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: William Nichols (Covington, KY steel mill worker)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 3, p. 256A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 1, p. 510. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 2, p. 359B. "Covington News," Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Oh.), November 15, 1862, p. 3. "Deaths," Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Oh.), May 27, 1878, p. 5. Williams & Co, Williams' Covington and Newport Directory for 1866-67 (Covington, KY, 1866), 129. "John Buckner Lendrum (1804-1878)," Find A Grave, Memorial 141255558, accessed March 31, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141255558. "Elizabeth Hudson Rudd Lendrum (1821-1880)," Find A Grave, Memorial 141255519, accessed March 31, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141255519. KYR-0001-004-0041. John Brough (Twenty-sixth Governor of the State of Ohio, newspaper editor, railroad president, and politician.) N00008365 1811-09-17 1865-08-29 Categories: People

Twenty-sixth Governor of the State of Ohio, newspaper editor, railroad president, and politician. Washington County, Ohio, native. Son of John Brough and Jane Garnet Brough. Married to Achsah Pruden Brough in Athens County, Ohio, on November 30, 1832. Father of Mary Brough. Married to Caroline A. Nelson Brough. Father of Emma Brough, Caroline Brough, and Anna Brough. Owner of the Washington County Republican from 1831 to 1833. Clerk of the Senate of the State of Ohio from 1835 to 1838. Member of the House of the Representatives of the State of Ohio from 1838 to 1839. Auditor of the State of Ohio from 1839 to 1845. Railroad president in Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1850. Railroad president in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1860. Employed Mary [Unknown], Ann [Unknown] and John Coon as servants in Cuyahoga County in 1860. Governor of the State of Ohio from January 11, 1864, to August 29, 1865.

Relationships Legal: Calvin Dyer (Clinton County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John Ritchie (Louisville, Kentucky, thief) Legal: Ethelinda Rielea (Louisville, Kentucky) Legal: James D. Jones (Boyd County, Kentucky, attorney, county attorney, and NP) Political: William Henry Smith (Ohio, newspaper editor and 16th Secretary of State) Legal: Samuel Thomas (Hamilton County, Ohio, deputy sheriff) Legal: James Wilson (Hamilton County, Ohio, fugitive from justice.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Jefferson County, Madison War 8, p. 124A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland Ward 2, p. 748. Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Athens County Marriages, 1805-1864, Film 000311592. "John Brough," The Cleveland Leader (Cleveland, OH), August 30, 1865, p. 2. Osman Castle Hooper, "John Brough," Ohio Archæological and Historical Publications, vol. XIII (Columbus: Fred. J. Heer, 1904), 40-70. "John Brough (1811-1865)," Find A Grave, Memorial 18779, accessed October 18, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18779. Moses Nelson (Preble County, Ohio, carpenter and agent of the State of Ohio.) N00021109 1809 1886 Categories: People

Preble County, Ohio, carpenter and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Creason Nelson in Preble County, Ohio, on April 10, 1832. Father of James Nelson, Jane Nelson, Wilbur Nelson, Clinton C. Nelson, George W. Nelson, and Olivia Nelson. Carpenter in Preble County in 1850. Carpenter in Preble County in 1860. Sheriff of Preble County from 1864 to 1868.

Relationships Legal: Ninth Judicial District of Kentucky Legal: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Preble County, Eaton, p. 237B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Preble County, Gasper Township, p. 159. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Ohio, Preble County, Washington Township, p. 278B. Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Preble County Marriages, Film 000564963. "Local Department," The Eaton Democrat (Eaton, OH), November 11, 1886, p. 3. R. E. Lowry, History of Preble County Ohio: Her People, Industries and Institutions (Indianapolis, IN: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915), 190. "Moses Nelson (1809-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial 52673923, accessed November 15, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52673923. Kenton County, Kentucky P00000937 Categories: Places

County in northern Kentucky. Seat at Covington. Located on the Ohio River.

39.9864, -84.5641 Ron D. Bryant, "Kenton County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993), 488-89. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Kenton County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on January 24, 2020). 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). 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. Kenton County Court O00000645 Categories: Organizations

Located in Independence, Kenton County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Lafayette Shaw. Clerk(s): S. C. Perrin, James Ayars, Jr., and A. C. Ellis.

Relationships Economic: James Ayars, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, insurance agent and county court clerk) Economic: Andrew H. Herod (Kenton County, Kentucky, jailer) Economic: William E. Ashbrook (Covington, Kentucky, sheriff and merchant) Legal: William H. Shmoddle (Driver and agent for C. W. Roback in Covington, Kentucky) Economic: Benjamin Egelston (Covington, Kentucky, justice of the peace) Economic: John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Legal: Felix McDermot (Kenton County laborer and prisoner for grand larceny)

“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. Kenton County, Kentucky 1865-08-23 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": 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 1 of page "2": 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 Commonwealth of Kentucky

County of Kenton } SS,

Before the undersigned a justice of the peace within and for the county and Commonwealth aforesaid, this day personally came Andrew J. Surface of lawful age, who being by me first duly sworn according to law on oath says, That on the nineteenth day of March Eighteen hundred and sixty Four, at the county of Kenton in the Commonwealth of Kentucky Lucy Elizabeth Stover alias Elizabeth Snyder alias Elizabeth Surface late of said county, was guilty of the crime of bigamy, in this -- That the said Lucy Elizabeth Stover alias Elizabeth Snyder, alias Elizabeth Surface on the day and year aforesaid, at the county and Commonwealth aforesaid was married to one Adam J. Surface, she the said Lucy Elizabeth Stover alias Elizabeth Snyder alias Elizabeth Surface then and there being a married woman, and her lawful husband Stover being then alive, Affiant further says that he is well acquianted with the said Lucy Elizabeth Stover alias Elizabeth Snyder alias Elizabeth Surface by reputation, from which he knows that the said Lucy Elizabeth Stover alias Elizabeth Surface alias Elizabeth Snyder was lawfully married to Stover on the day of and that she and her said husband had laid and cohabitated together, as such husband and wife for a number of years previous and up to the month of March 1864 and reared a family of legitimate children -- That her said husband Stover is now alive no divorce having been granted to the parties or either of them. That he has been

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shown the record of the County Court of Kenton County Kentucky, and from said record it appears that on the 19th day of March 1864 a license was issued by the Judge of said court for the solemnization of a marriage between the said (Lucy Elizabeth Stover,) alias LElizabeth Snyder alias Elizabeth Suface) in the name of Elizabeth Snyder, and Adam J. Surface, and affiant has also been shown said license, duly returned to said office, from which it appears that a marriage was duly solemnized by legal authority, between the said parties therein named, Affiant further says that the said Lucy Elizabeth Stover alias Lucy Elizabeth Snyder alias Elizabeth Surface, so married in said County of Kenton Kentucky is the identical Lucy Elizabeth Stover alias Elizabeth Snyder alias Elizabeth Surface whose lawful husband was then and is now living as aforesaid, and further saith not,

Andrew J. Surface

Sworn to and subscribed before me by Andrew J. Surface this 23rd day of August A.D. 1865 and I further certify, that I believe the said Andrew J. Surface the affiant to be a credible person,

J B Lendrum J P K Co Ky Fee 25 paid by affiant J B L

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Affidavits of Andrew J. Surface

Requisition on Gov Ohio issued

& Moses Nelson 24 Aug /65