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Military: <rs ref='#S32206781'>Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32197876'>Jones A. Crawford (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt/1st Lieu Cav USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209482'>William D. Ratcliffe (Bracken Co, Ky, tavern keeper &amp; capt 10th Cav USA)</rs><lb/>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 2, 60A. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 153.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965</hi>, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 27493.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910)</hi>, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994027, Adair County Births.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Marriage Records</hi>, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Adair County Marriages, Film 000830576.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 213A. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 4th Ward Louisville, p. 73. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky</hi>, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0057. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Maysville Weekly Bulletin</hi> (Maysville, Kentucky) 15 October 1863.<lb/>

“Deaths,” <hi rend='italic'>The Journal of the American Medical Association</hi> Vol. 60 (May 3, 1913), p. 1376. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Find A Grave</hi>, "Dr Isaac Webb Scott (1826-1913)," Memorial #8889294, <a href='https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8889294#'>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8889294#</a> (accessed on June 15, 2018).</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B.<lb/>

Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky’s Governors</hi> (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97<lb/>

Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13.</bibl>
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