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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Appointments by the Governor, Civil Appointments, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-007-0325 BR2-218

Rock Castle, Trigg 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. Gordon B. Grasty (Trigg County, Kentucky, grocer and justice of the peace) N00002087 1822-01-12 1873-07-16 Categories: People

Trigg County, Kentucky, grocer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Cassandra Thea Wadlington Grasty. Father of Felix K. Grasty and Gordon Grasty. Grocer in Trigg County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Trigg County in 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 47. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Trigg County, Rock Castle, p. 2. Find A Grave, "Gordon B. Grasty (1822-1873)," Memorial #50096423, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50096423/gordon-b.-grasty (accessed March 9, 2017). Rock Castle, Kentucky P00002083 Categories: Places

Shipping port in Trigg County, Kentucky. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.8998, -87.9872 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 253. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Rock Castle, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 2, 2020). Trigg County, Kentucky P00000549 Categories: Places

County in far western Kentucky. Seat at Cadiz. Located on the Cumberland River and Tennessee River.

36.865, -87.8353 "Cadiz, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 13, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Virginia T. Alexander, “Trigg County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 899-900. Rock Castle, Trigg County, Kentucky 1864-11-29 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Rock Castle Ky Novr 269th 1864 To his Excellency Gov Bramlett of Ky Sir

I herewith tender to You my resignation of Office as Justice of the Peace in the 2nd District of Trigg County Ky & recommend the Appointment of G. B. Grasty, of this District, to fill the unexpired term, in my Place

I resign in consequence of Rheumatis which render me unfit to attend to the Duties of Office, it being located Particularly severe in my Pen Hand

Should you appoint Mr Grasty it would be a considerable accomodation to the Citizens of this District that he receive his Com Early, as the term of Court ^for this Dist,^ comes on in next month

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Trigg County Justice Peace Resignation of B. Standrod & appt of G B Grasty 3rd Dec/64