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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-0001-007-0384 BR2-297

Stanford, Lincoln 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. Simon E. Higgins (Crab Orchard, Kentucky, postmaster, merchant and justice of the peace) N00006724 1818-08-20 1889-05-07 Categories: People

Lincoln County, Kentucky, postmaster, merchant, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Jane C. Higgins. Father of John S. Higgins, Catherine E. Higgins, Mary Susan Higgins, Jeremiah F. Higgins, Margaret Higgins, Calista Higgins, Jane Higgins, S. E. Higgins, and Ephraim P. Higgins. Postmaster in Crab Orchard, Kentucky, from May 6, 1853, to December 12, 1855. Merchant in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1860. Justice of the peace in Lincoln County in 1865.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: John Evans Carson (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, hotel keeper, police judge, and home guard corporal (U.S.A.))

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Crab Orchard, p. 54. "Simon E. Higgins (1818-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial #66965643, accessed July 30, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66965643/simon-e.-higgins. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Lincoln County, Kentucky, vol. 14. Archibald Carson (Crab Orchard, Kentucky, constable, soldier, and justice of the peace) N00006725 1821? 1897-06-18 Categories: People

Crab Orchard, Kentucky, constable, soldier, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth S. Carson. Father of Mary A. Carson, Samuel S. Carson, Elizabeth C. Carson, William Archibald Carson, Stewart M. Carson, and James H. Carson. Hotel keeper in Lincoln County in 1850. Constable in Crab Orchard in 1860. Corporal in the Rockcastle & Lincoln Co. Home Guards from May 1862 to July 1862. Second lieutenant with the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment from September 1862 to September 1863. Justice of the peace for the Crab Orchard precinct of Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2, p. 49.; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Crab Orchard, p. 1; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population schedule, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Crab Orchard, p. 5; Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0472; Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0088; Find A Grave, "Arch Carson (1821-1897)," Memorial #95240322, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=95240322&ref=acom (accessed May 30, 2017). Winford Green Bailey (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge) N00006607 1803-03-16 1883-04-19 Categories: People

Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer, politician and county judge. Lincoln County, Kentucky, native. Son of Elijah Bailey. Married to Catherine J. Embry Bailey in 1839. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for Lincoln County in 1834 and 1835. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Lincoln County and Garrard County, Kentucky, from 1840 to 1844. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in 1860. Judge of the Lincoln County Court in 1862.

Relationships Legal: Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant) Political: Simon E. Higgins (Crab Orchard, Kentucky, postmaster, merchant and justice of the peace)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District No. 2, p. 302B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District No. 2, p. 261. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 5. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 2. Find A Grave, "Winford Green Bailey (1803-1883)," Memorial #32023772, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=32023772 (accessed May 26, 2017). "Deaths: Judge Winfred G. Baily," Semi-weekly Interior Journal (Stanford, Ky.), April 20, 1883, p. 3. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, _History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1878), p. 468. Folklife Archives, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, "Bailey, Winford Green, 1803-1883 (SC 2243)" (2010). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 1287 (http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlscmssfin_aid/1287). Stanford, Kentucky P00008733 Categories: Places

Seat of Lincoln County, Kentucky.

37.5312, -84.6619 Allan R. Leach, "Stanford" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 846. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 281. "Stanford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 2, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Lincoln County, Kentucky P00005395 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Stanford, Kentucky.

37.5312, -84.6619 Allan R. Leach, "Lincoln County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001), p. 557-58. "Stanford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 2, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Crab Orchard, Kentucky P00005569 Categories: Places

Town in Lincoln County, Kentucky.

37.4645, -84.5066 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 70. "Crab Orchard, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 19, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky 1865-03-10 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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Stanford Ky March 10th 1865 Gov, Bramlett

S G Higens has resigned his office as justice of the peace in and for Lincoln county he lived in the craborchard precinct.

The people of that precinct have recommended to me Archabald Cussan as a suitable person to fill the vacancy of said office and requested me to advise you of their selection; if you shall so think I trust you will commission Mr A Cussan at your earliest conveinence as the craborchard people say they are much in need of a justice of the peace

I am &c W S Bailey county Judge &c

Dis. No 3

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Lincoln Co Justice Peace Resignation & appointment 14th Mch/65