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Petition

J. B. McClintock et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

1864-01-08

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Date of Creation: January 8, 1864
Place of Creation: Cynthiana, Harrison 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: BR9-239 to BR9-242
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-004-0471
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J. B. McClintock et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-01-08, 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-0001-004-0471 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette
Govenor of the Commonwealth of Ky

The undersigned citizens of Harrison County state that Garrett Whitson was tried & found guilty of the murder of John Spikard and has been sentenced to be hanged on the 9^th day of February 1864. The killed man was but recently before his death out of the Penetentiary and maintained the worst possible character before he went & while there- The crime for which the deceased was sent to the penetentiary was, that he went into a melon patch of one of his neighbors and was stealing the melons and when the owners of the melons (being a man & his wife) came on him & asked him to desist he instantly shot them both- but fortunately the shots did not prove fatel to either — Showing him to be a man of the most vicious & blood thirsty character

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The proof develop these facts: That Whitson went to the house of Mr Albright in company with in Company with some other person and told Albrights wife and daughter both of whom are notorious prostitutes, that Mr Albright was out some distance from the house very drunk and started with them to assist in bringing him home- When they had proceeded some distance until they Came up to a main road they met with Andrew Whitson with a shot gun & John Spikard with a rifle. Spikard said why have you brought my cousin Liz ~~out~~ and her daughter out here this time of night (It was then about dusk) She remarked that she was hunting for Mr Albright her husband, that Garrett Whitson had said her husband was lying near a log on the road side. Spikard said that Whitson was a liar. Whitson said he must not repeat what he had said

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Spikard with his loaded rifle in his hand did repeat it. Wherefore Whitson snatched the shot gun from his brother Andrew Whitson and instantly fired & killed Spikard.

The only witnesses to prove any thing about the matter were the two Cousins of Spikard Elizabeth Albright and Mary Francis Albright and James Ashbrook- The two women are notorious harlots and Ashbrook is a man whose character for veracity is utterly worthless- Whitson has a ~~small~~ large family of small children is entirely destitute of pecuniary means, and is without relations who take an interest in him sufficient to make them exert themselves for his pardon or otherwise aid him in his perillous situation, and we who are stangers to him but acquainted with the general character of the witnesses upon whose testimony he was found guilty do not believe that any

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human being ought to suffer the death penalty upon the sole & exclusive evidence of such persons as the wintesses for the prosecution against this poor man. We therefore ask your excellency to pardon him- He is a consumptive & is now a mere shadow from the effect of his disease and protracted confinement in our County Jail before & since his trial and if appearances are true to themselves he cannot last if pardoned more than six or eight months.

Cynthiana Ky
Jany 8^th 1864

J B. M^cClintock S H C
J. F. Ware. C. H. Circt. Ct.
H D Peck
A Perrin
J W Peck
L VanHook
Robert Jones
John S Boyd
L Coppage
F A Evelith
Frederick Robitzen
W^m P H Browning
Henry VanHook
[...]
[...]

J Newton Smith
Jn^o O, Day
J L Griffith
J. S. Boyd
Cha^s F. Wilson C. H. C
S. J. Stowers
J. Q. Ward,
Jno T. M^cClintock
Jno R. Smith
Tho^s Edwards
G W Turner
[...] H Martin

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M. L. Broadwell P J. H C
C. T. Delling
Issac Hodges
J F G S^t Thomas
T. A. Frazer
Willis T Zilare
T. W. Evelith
Sam J, Ashbrook
James G Wall
A Renaker
J S Withers
R C Wherritt
D. W. Juett
W B Renaker
W H. Throckmorton
Nicholas, D, Moore
Henry Warfield
T H. Anderson
G H Givens
John Wright
John Carter
C A, Webster
W^m Shumate
Thos Laitsch
C. Walton
A, S, Thomson
Jn^o B Rainey
H Dugee

John Bruce J. H C
W^m M. Nourse
W. B. Pursell.
L H VanHook —
W Barrett
A. Addams
James Hutcherson
James W Wornall
W R Hoffman
Peter Garner
L Oxley
Darwin Roland
T, R, Rankin
David N, Dills
W H Dills
Archibal James
Jo^s B, Carpenter
Maurice Morpihan
Patrick H King
Thomas English
John English
James English
W B Grave
J, D, George
D, A, Givens
W^m W Kimbrough
B C Day
N. Curtis

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Lewis Perrin
J, Rieter
Milton Smith
V L Northcutt
William Magee
J. B. Smith
George, W, Gilmen
Wm. N. Atkins
David Veach
James Van Dorn
Sam Douglas
Thomas ^M^ Moore
P, Phillips
C H Abbott
Joseph Pryor
Cha^s E Donald
A, D, Kennard
H, G, Baker
J. Mac Kimbrough
James. Frazer
Thomas V. Ashbrook
J, A, Cook
L Stump
Thomas Hinkston
Benjamin Dunn
W^m P Costhwait
W^m M^cKenney
J. T. M^cKinley

J. N. Webb
E M Glare
Paul. King
Arch Edger
J. T. Nicholas
Joe H Shawhan
G. H. Perrin
T. C Cox
Jo^s S Dray
H L Ashbrook Covington Ky
John Musbury
Tho^s Miley
James M^cBride
George Brown
S C Tucker
J. R. Earls
Ja^s B Curl
James Simes
John M Hamilton
J M Givens
Philip Ammerman
J, M, McGibben
George Palmer
E. Arrende
James C King
R L Cummins
Lewis D Terry
Canaday Ringes
John Burgess Jr

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John Duglass
H C, Ireland
J, H, Medd Smithe
William Anderson
Jas W Berry
L Penn
L F Strowe
A Day
~~James~~ John [...]
James Leonard
L M Weaver
F G Cruse
Noah thorp
John J Clifford
B F fightmast
J heger
G A Boyd
M Hutcherson
Michael B Cleary
Reuben L Robertson
E J Steward
A L Wiglesworth
Wm M Terry
Z Dunn
P Lilly
P. Kirtley
Hugh W Levi
Thomas D Bassett
Wm H Bumbarger

T C [Jigney]
L C Rankin
E M Farnel
John Q Anderson
H D Frisbee
G W Henry
John Pagget
Charles Giles
S, J, Davis
John Hiton
Isaac N Rees
David Williams
N [I] Day
J H Renneckar
C. C. Snodgrass
James Tippett
Lum Snodgrass
E C Hutchison
Michael David
William Hinkson
Elija Bayley
John Bing
R Lancaster
Saml White
James Shulley
Barnett Odon
H Caron
L G Humble

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M S. Wiglesworth
W S Renekar
Wm G Courtney
J H Raines
G. S. Sparks
B F Dills
A, A, Dills
A Conner
Ashley Edwards
W^m Conner
D A Grimes
Noah S Patterson
Samuel Tucker
H. S. Webb,
Robert Chaney

Enoc Craigmites
Thomas Webser
Ruben Hadger
R Alex D Clifford
Jno. O Hodges
T H Corbin
Tho^s B Arnett
J. W. Musselman
W, M, Hite
W^m Buzzard
N. G. Henry
Geo. Kimbrough