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Petition

C. P. Edmunds et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-03-18

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Date of Creation: March 18, 1865
Place of Creation: Barren 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: BR12-397 to BR12-397B
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-004-1549
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C. P. Edmunds et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-03-18, 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-0001-004-1549 (November 12, 2026).

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State of Kentucky
County, of Baren

To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlet Governor of said state at Frankfort.

Your petitioners show to your Excellency that Sidney Young was indicted at the March Term 1865 of the Baren circuit court and tried and convicted for the crime of Arson and sentenced to five years confinement in the state Penetentiary. They show that said Young is only about Eighteen Years old up to this time he has sustained a good character for honesty industry sobriety & morality; no charge of vice or immorality ever having previously been made against him. His parents are also of the very highest respectability and reside in our immediate neighborhood in this county & we have known the defendant from his childhood. On the day the offence was committed he was induced to & did drink too much spirits and was very drunk when he went to the house of one Preston wade & have a fight with a negro and threw several things in the fire which was burning & from which it appeared the house took fire. He was a stranger to wade & his family had no malice at him and only a hole in the floor was burned. In consideration of his Extreme Youth & previous good character we respectfully Yet earnestly recomend him to Executive clemency and ask your Excellency to pardon him

C. P. Edmunds
E M Duval
J W Read
.H. W. Sanders
G W Gaines

Susan. F. Hawkans
Elzira Henderson
N A Jamison
Mary Malinda Green

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Thomas L Morriss
William B. Edmunds
F. J. Smith
Thomas Matthews
George W Read
W^m. F Read
R H Hawks
W. F Dodd
Jo. H. Holman
J. B. Benedict
J, E, Whitney
M S Reynolds
T W Hart
Hiram Smith
W. R. Henderson
Allen D Settle
E D Buster
James S E Everett
James. M. Morrison
John, Q, Everett
G. W. Erwin —
H. Richy
C. S. Steritt
Vestes Moore
C. J. Huffman
E, E, Huffman
F G Huffman
John F. Henderson
W. W. Duff
[D.] C. Buster
A. J. green
W. T. green
T. F. Smith

Lucinda W Buster
Frances A. Everett
M S Everett
Mary M Erwin
Lou Moore
Ronnie Fant
Callie Fant
Harrett, L, Hawks
Luan. H. Hawks
Mary, E, Hawks
Sark, E. Huffman
Anna, E, Huffman
Nancy. A. Huffman
Mary Huffman
Fannie A E Martin
Margeret J Henderson
Eliza, J, Duff
Winny, Duff
Mary, W, Duff
Sarah, A, Buster
Louisa Morriss
Lucy, J, Smith
Sarah, G, Smith
Mary. Jane. Green
Mary C Jordan
Luvenia. Y. Hackney
Alice. J. Jordan
Mattie Porter
Ella Barton
Maria E Spillman
Susan E Richey
Lucetta. C. Button
Emily J. Button

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John, R, Green
F. Duff
Underwood Butler
Jerome. B. Butler
Joseph. Butler
Jos. W. Smith
John B. Spillman
A H Cole Jr
Robert Butler
R. A. Galbraith
W^m. C. Lewis
C. P. Spillman
Jno E Holman
Harvey Doty
Ahmid Larrance
T. E. Button
John Butler
G. B. Shackel
John L Duff
Jonathan Jewell Jr
J W Henderson
S W Holman
C. T. Holman

I have not been acquainted with the above prisoner as mentioned but I believe the statements made above are true and I am satisfied that Mr Young was very drunk, when he committed the crime of which he is found guilty. and sentenced I fully concur with the above subscribers in asking the Gov. of Ky to pardon Mr Young for the offence for which he is sentenced.

Sarah, E. Butler
Caroline, M, Butler
Mary, J, Butler
L, M, Shackels
Elizebeth, S, Shackels
Cloe. Shackels
Martha. Huffman
Cornelia D Henderson
Virginia. W. Lewis
E. T. Smith
Sarah, E, Duff

C. Duff
Cha^s M Wheeler
Wm T. Oliver
M W Hudson
W G Rodes
G. P. Gaines
F. A. Richardson, late Pro. Mar. B. C.

Gov. Bramlett, Sir I have carefully examined the signatures of the persons to the foregoing petition; I am acquainted with at least one half of them, they are respectable and some of them I know to be amongst our best citizens

W, F, Evans
March 18. 1865