Edward Elston to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-12-06
- Date of Creation
- December 6, 1865
- Place of Creation
- Fleming 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
- BR17-69 to BR17-70
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-2803
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32205687
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Citation
Edward Elston to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-12-06, 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-0001-004-2803 (November 13, 2026).
To His Excellency Thomas E Bramlette
Governor of Kentucky:
Your Petitioner Edward Elston respectfully represents that he was fined the sum of Twenty five dollars and costs in the Justices Court of L. B. Cox Judge of the Fleming County Court for an alleged assault & battery and breach of the peace — He states that the persons with whom the difficulty took place were imposing upon and attempting to wrong and oppress his brother in law who is an exceedingly small and feeble young man, really a dwarf — and he came to the relief of his said brother in law, and defended him from the wrong attempted to be perpetrated on him — The assault was really commenced by the other party But they it seems applied for a warrant & included both him and his brother in law in it — and thus he was placed at the mercy of the
prosecuting witnesses and was deprived of the testimony of his brother in law, who would have relieved him of all blame. He had no interest in the matter, and was acting from sympathy and kindness of his feeble brother in law who was being wronged by the prosecuting witnesses — Wherefore he respectfully asks that the Executive will interpose in his behalf & grant him a pardon from said judgment
Edward Elston
sworn to before me this
John M Harbeson C, F, C, C
James Strode says he is the brother in law of Edward Elston referred to above — He is twenty five years old and weighs less than one hundred pounds — and quite feeble — The facts as stated by Elston above are true
but he was made a party and not permited to testify on the trial, and prosecuting witnesses had it all their own way. He hopes the Governor will pardon Mr Elston who only came to his assistance
Respectfully
James R Strode
sworn to me by James Strode this
John M Harbeson c f c c
The Undersigned citizens of Fleming County respectfully concur in the foregoing application and recommend the pardon of Edward Elston —
Thos J. Throop (Mason Co)
D. K. Weis
L. F. Warden
W H Wadsworth
(of Mason)
A. E. Cole
Thos L Given
Wm H. Cord
E. C Phister (Mason Cty)
W O Phillips
L, B, Cox
M M Teague
John M Harbeson
John Alexander
Fleming County Court
vs
Edward Elston
$25
RAssault & —
Remitted