Petition

H. T. Cheatham to Thomas E. Bramlette

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
BR16-268 to BR16-269
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2654
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FTP Identifier
32205538

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Dates
1858-12
1865-11-17
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Citation

H. T. Cheatham to Thomas E. Bramlette, 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-0001-004-2654 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency Thomas E Bramlette Govenor of The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Your Petitioner H. F Cheatham States that at the December Term 1858 he was tried in the Fulton Equity & Criminal Court upon an Indictment charging him with the offence of keeping a Gaming House, and the Jury that tried Said case found him Guilty, and assessed his fine at Two Hundred Dollars, to the Commonwealth, he says that the Gaming charge took place at his room at a Hotel in Hickman, with a private party of gentlemen, that he has never been in the habit of Suffering gaming and only tolerated it in this instance at the Solicitation of a small party of personal fr^i^ends he says that he has been broken up during the war is quite a poor man, and that he has not the money or means with which to pay said fine,

Wherefore he asks your Excellency to remit said fine, and as in duty bound he will ever pray

H. F. Cheatham

We the undersigned citizens of Fulton County say that we know H. F Cheatham the Petitioner, and believe the Statements in his Petition to be

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true and we say that we believe it would be right and proper to Grant the remission asked

Names

C S Randle
J H Roulhac
H A Tyler
A, D, Kingman
Ed Crossland
E I Bulloch
John A Lauderdale
J M Bigger
B R Walker } Members of the Bar

Names

[Page 3] S N White
N, L, Nelson
R A Farris
R. E. Holmes
W. A. Anderson
Robert Yancy
John. Willis. Morris
Fr. Hellner
Jno C Heinze
Thad W Thomas
R R Holt
G. M, Wilburn
W. J. Cole
Jno W Wingate
J W Meacham
J W Cole
J B Walker
C. Meacham
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Fulton Equity & Crim Ct
vs
H F Cheatham
Petition
$200,
Gaming House
Remitted 17 Nov/65