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Petition

Hillery Rhodes to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-10-17

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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: BR16-13 to BR16-14
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-004-2508
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FTP Identifier: 32205392

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Dates: 1865-10-17; 1864; 1865-08; 1865-10-23

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Hillery Rhodes 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-0001-004-2508 (November 14, 2026).

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Lebanon October 17/1865
To his Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette
~~Hillery Rhodes~~

your petitioner Hillery Rhodes stats that ^at^ the [...] term 1864 of the Marion Circuit court he was indicted by the Grand jury of said county and charged with the offence of assault and Battery upon James Craig. And he further states that at the August term 1865 of the Marion Circuit Court he was fined the sum of twenty dollars ($20⁰⁰) your petitioner states that he is in very indigent circumstances and has a large family dependent upon hom for support he has no way of supporting his famiy Except to work by the day. and small as this sum is it will be a severe hardship for him to be compeled to pay it your petitioner humbly requests and prays your Excellency to remit the said fine —

Hillery Rhodes

The undersigned loyal citizens of Marion county believing the above case to be one Eminently deserving the interposition of Executive clemency join in the foregoing petition

132. W. J. Clements
13 W. N. Miles of the 37. mounted infantry
14. Thomas Miles
15 Ambrose, Smith
16 F D Greenwell
17 S. O. Hancock
18 Tho^s A Luckett
19 S S Mudd
20 R. S. OBryan
21 Jas H,, Hagan
22 James Boarman
23 Will. E. Ray —

1 — J. R. Thomas
2. John S Hagan
3 W. P Beauchamp late enrolling officer of Marion & Nelson counties
4 James carico
5 J K Thompson
6 Thomas Brannan of the 16^th Regulars
7. Ben F. Russell.
8 Joh. H. Clements
9 F D Green
10 W^m Odaniell
11 J. M Hardisty

[Page 2] S T Ray 25
Henry Beaver 26
Tho^s L. Fogle 27
G. W Bowles 28
J E Miles 29
J. W. Jarboe 30
James Malone 31
Joseph Blair 32
Charles Mattingly 33
Simeon Mattingly 34
E. A. Byrne 35
Nicholas Browning 36
Elijah Shockney 37
W^m Gardner 38
Jas dolittle 39
Thos. H. Payne 40
T. W. Walker 41
W W Smith
James Elder 50

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Marion Cir Ct
vs
H. Rhodes
$20
assault
Remitted 23 Oct /65