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Petition

Malinda Ward to Thomas E. Bramlette

1863-12-30

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Date of Creation: December 30, 1863
Place of Creation: Paintsville, Johnson County, Kentucky
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: BR9-74 to BR9-75
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-004-0362
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FTP Identifier: 32203249

Mentioned in this document

People: Price, Andrew Jackson; Rule, Andrew Wallace; Price, Benjamin Franklin ��Frank��; Grim, Charles J.; Pelphrey, Daniel; Wheeler, Daniel; Daniel, David; Preston, Franklin; Murry, George W.; Perry, George W.; Preston, Greenville; Literal, Harrison; Preston, Hereford; Goble, Isaac; Rice, Isaac; Blair, James Hayden; Stafford, James; Price Jesse, Sr.; Auxier, John B.; Ward, John H.; Howes, John; Porter, John M.; Walter, John M.; Rice, John R.; Ward, Johnathan; Davis, Joseph; Dils, Lewis C.; Ward, Malinda Meek; Dixon, Martin B.; Preston, Montraville; Preston Moses, Jr.; Castle, Nathan; Auxier, Nathaniel; Stafford, Ralph; Auxier Samuel Lewis, Jr.; Hager, Samuel P.; Walters, Shadrach W.; Preston, Stephen S.; Bramlette, Thomas Elliott; Brown, Thomas S.; Williams, Thomas S.; Vanhoose, Valentine; Honer, W. W.; Hill, William E.; Ward, William Jefferson; McKenzie, William Jesse; Auxier, William L.; Preston, William; Stafford, William; Walters, Winfrey H.; Meek, Zephaniah
Places: Johnson County, Kentucky; Kentucky; Paintsville, Kentucky
Organizations: 39th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.); Commonwealth of Kentucky; General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky; Kentucky State Penitentiary
Dates: 1863-12-30; 1858-04; 1862; 1862; 1864-02-22

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Malinda Ward to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1863-12-30, 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-0001-004-0362 (November 12, 2026).

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Paintsville
Johnson County
Ky Der 30^th 1863
To his Excellency
Thomas E Bramlett Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

The undersigned petitioner would respectfully represent that she is the mother of Jonathan Ward who now is and has been since the [...] day of April 1858 confined in the Penitentiary of this state-

That she is and has been for many years a widow in a helpless and destitute condition That she is unable to labor for her support. And oweing to her advanced age and from the effects of ^Chronic inflammatory rheumatism)^ which has rendered her almost helpless- she must in the future be almost wholy dependent upon her friends for support

Your petitioner would further represent that her son was confined in the penitentiary for the murder of Nathan Castle but if he was guilty of the charge the act was committed in a drunken frolick and not with malice aforethought

If guilty surely he has fully atoned for the offence and if not guilty surely he has been kept long enough from a widowed and helpless mother-

For these considerations I would therefore ask your Excellency to grant him a release that he may return home to comfort and support his aged mother

Malinda ^her X mark^ Ward

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Your petitioners being well acquainted with Jonathan Ward who is now confined in the state penitentiary and also with his aged and widowed mother would respectfully represent that the foregoing petition presents the case fairly. And we would respectfully ask your Excellency to grant the request of his helpless mother

W H walter
~~W h walter~~
Greenvill Preston

William ^x^ Preston

Daniel Pelphrey

G. W. Perry

Stephen. S. Preston
Wm J Ward J P J C
John H Ward
Joseph D Davis
Jno M Walter
George. W. Murry
Moses Preston Jr

John B Auxier Mag 39^th
Isaac Goble Liet
Co A 39 Ky Regt

Wm Stafford

John R Rice