To Govenor Thomas E. Bramlette. Govenor of Kentucky, —

Your Petitioner Cathaine Corn, states that she is the wife of Solmon Corn now confined in the Penitentiary of the state of Kentucky under a Judgment of the Mercer circuit Court on a charge of Larceny, at the October Term 1864 she states that he is a good man, a kind, and affectionate husband, and that she married him before she was sixteen years of age, — That she has never heard, or known that he was accused of any offence whatever until the one upon which his conviction was based. — that in that affair two others were with him, — that it was during the first of the christmass holidays, and that he was lively with his friends, and honestly believes he was thus misled, and that his action was not intentionally felonious. — from her personal knowledge of him during their marriage & for some time prior thereto, she tho' not a competent witness in court can bear witness to your Excellency that he is an honestman, — free from vise and a true lover of his country & its unity — she is informed that the Jurors in the case are willing & anxious that he should be pardoned by the Executive authority of the state, — that the Judge of the Court has expressed the opinion that his was a case more meritorious for clemency than others who had been pardoned, & that the citizens of the County of Mercer by a large nomber desire his release, — she states that when he was sent to Frankfort they had two children, herself & them dependant upon him for support. entirely, and that his labor — is now taken from her, & appropriated to the state — that since his imprisonment, one of their children

has, departed this life. — the grief she bore at its death & burial in the absence of the father no language can express, and it is useless to attempt it — that father in imprisonment or released can never see that child again, — He has now been in imprisonment, about five or six months & over, — will not this time in the Penitentary suffice,? — His father a poor man has drowned himself during that time because of the trouble on account of the imprisonment of his son — & left no estate to pass to his children — Your Petitioner, & child is entirely dependant on her own labor for support, and it is hard labor for the purpose, without property, or rich friends & relations to give any aid whatever — she will not speak of her feelings & affections ^for her husband^ — but knowing you from your reputation as a kind & benevolent man, a just Judge & approved Govenor, she most kindly asks that in view of the Petition of the Jury in the case, the petition of citizens who know him, & in view also of her humble prayer — she asks that you will extend clemency to her husband — & will pardon him that he may set in to work at this season of the year to try & make a little crop for the purpose of aiding in the support of herself & child, — Relying confidently on your views of justice & right she makes this solemn request of you as a good man, — very respectfully —

Catharine Corn

Nov term 1864 — for 2 years

Mercer Cir Ct
vs
Sol. Corn

M^rs Corns Petition to Govenor Bramlette.

January
— Term 1864
2. years

Pardon
P5^th Apl/65
2 years