Petition

Robert O. Whitaker to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-02-20

Date of Creation
February 20, 1865
Place of Creation
Bedford, Trimble 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
BR12-343 to BR12-344
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1511
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FTP Identifier
32204398

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Dates
1865-02-20
1863-10
1865-02-24
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Robert O. Whitaker to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-02-20, 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-0001-004-1511 (November 15, 2026).

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Bedford Trimble Co Kentucky
Feby 20th 1865
To his Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,

Your Petitioner Robert O. Whitaker a citizen of Trimble County Kentucky, would respectfully represent that at the October term of the Trimble circuit court 1863 he was fined the Sum of Twenty Dollars for pitching Dollars, for which he was not aware that it was a fineable offence

He with other boys were only amusing themselves and Sometimes the one who got beat would have to treat, He therefour prays your honor to remit Said fine as he is a poor man and unable to do more these war times than support his family.

Robt O. Whitaker

We the undersigned citizens and neighbors of Mr Whitaker respectfully request the Governor to grant the prayer of the above petitioner

Silas Gatewood
R. Bell
Alex. Cook
F. E. Skidmore

W, P, Maddox
J H McCarty
Russel Colbert
F, L, Skidmore

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W. F. Peak
Jas,, B,, Cook
J D Thompson
D. S. Lane
John. W, Stewart
W. H. Hunt
Thomas Jones
E M Garriott

A. J. Wright
G W Perkinson
N, B, Wright
D R Lane
S. A. Staples
F. Hutcherson
Jno T. Bryan

Trimble Cir Ct
vs
R. O Whitaker
$20 —
24th Feby/65

Remit