Sarah Bartley to Unknown
- Document Genre
- Petition
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
- Box / Folder
- BR8-53
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-0036
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32202923
- People
- Smith, Benjamin C.
- Shaw, Chambers T.
- Williams, E. D.
- Morgan, E. H.
- Thompson, George W.
- Thompson, J. H.
- Harding, James S.
- Fennel, John
- Cagen, John M.
- Parker, John P.
- Thompson, John
- Crosby, John Y.
- Holliday, Louis C.
- Justus, Milton
- Bartley, Sarah C.
- Bramlette, Thomas Elliott
- Hood, William
- Bartley, William M.
- Marshall, William P.
- Sowers, William
- Places
- Frankfort, Kentucky
Citation
Sarah Bartley to Unknown, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-0036 (November 12, 2026).
To the Honorable, The Governor of the State of Kentucky.
Your Petitioner respectfully represents that she is the wife of William Bartley, lately convicted by the Mason County Court, now in the Penitentiary at Frankfort, Kentucky, that she, with two small children, have been left without any means of support whatever & that her health does not admit of her working for a living
She furthur represents, that, though in this instance her husband may have erred and deserved punishment, yet he has always been kind to his family & supplied them with the necessaries of life
The present, is the first time, that she has ever heard him charged with theft & so far as she knows, he has heretofore bourn a good character for honesty,
She earnestly asks you to remember mercy, if not for his sake, at least for her sake & for the sake of her two children & grant him a pardon, in order that he may return home.
Sarah ^her X mark^ Bartley
Attest
We,The undersigned, represent that they are personally acquainted with William Bartley & his wife Sarah Bartley and believe the statements made by her to be true or substantially true