Petition

William Mudd et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-10-17

Date of Creation
October 17, 1865
Place of Creation
Lebanon, Marion 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
BR16-1
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2501
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Dates
1865-10-17
1864
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1865-10-23
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William Mudd et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-10-17, 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-0001-004-2501 (November 13, 2026).

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Lebanon October 17/65
Gov Thos E. Bramlette

Your petitioner Henry Clements would state to your Excellency that he was indicted by the Grand jury of Marion County at the [...] term 1864[...]of the offence of shooting in sudden heat and passion — He further states that the shot did not take Effect and the man shot at was not struck or in any way injured by the shot — He states that at the recent august term of the Marion circuit court he was fined the sum of thirty four dollars That he is very poor and has a family dependent upon him for support and that if he is compeled to pay this sum small as it is it will be a great hardship for him — He prays your Excellency to remit the said fine of thirty four Dollars —

The undersigned citizens of Marion coutny believing this case presents strong reasons for Excecutive clemency join in the foregoing petition —

William Mudd
W V Miles
Joseph Blair
P. B. Russell
Frank Greenwell
D. D. Ray
W S Clements
Ambrose Smith
[...] Browning
F B Miles

J. R. Thomas
D, H. Howard
H. D. Gilmore one ^of the jury^
T. C. Jackson
A [Corlery]
Fletcher Wilson
R W, Clasky
J. R. Russell
John Saurance
Daniel A Kelly
John O Boarman

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[Page 4] Marion Cir Ct
vs.
H. Clements
$34,
Shooting
Remitted 23d Oct 1865
&
Hillery Rhodes
$20.
assault