Legal/Financial

Caspar Hebel et al., Affidavit

1864-08-06

Date of Creation
August 6, 1864
Document Genre
Legal/Financial
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
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BR11-477
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1287
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32204174

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Dates
1864-01
1864-08-06
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Caspar Hebel et al., Affidavit, 1864-08-06, 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-0001-004-1287 (November 12, 2026).

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State of Kentucky
Jefferson County

Caspar Hebel Chales Hartling John Zoll & Charles Hannger John Miller Henry Melcher state that they are citizens of Louisville Ky that they knew William Medard decd. and also Jacob Medard who was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in the Penitentiary of Ky at the last Jany term of the Jefferson circuit court — that the mental capacity of both was of a very low order. They ^have^ known the sd Jacob well, living in the immediate neighborhood of him for some 12 or 14 years. & the old man the father for several years — That sd. Jacob never was able to speak the language of this country. That he was industrious & honest in his business as a shoemaker making a bare support for his wife & children —

C B Hebel
Chas. Hartling.
[Johann] Zoll
John Moeller
Charles [Hauneys]

Subscribed & sworn to before me by Caspar Heleb Charles Hartling John Zoll Charles Hannger John Miller Henry Melcher these all respectable citizens of Louisville. this 6 August 1864

A. W. Waller J. P. J. C.