John K. Morris et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette
- Document Genre
- Petition
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- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
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- Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
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- BR17-155 to BR17-156
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-2862
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Citation
John K. Morris et al. 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-0001-004-2862 (November 14, 2026).
To his Excellency the Governor of Ky —
The undersigned your petitioners would respectfully request your Excellency to extend your clemency to a prisoner now in the Penitentiary by the name if John Ferrill We assure your excellency that we are influenced in the application by no motive other than a conviction that this mans punishment has been fully adequate to his offense. John Ferrill was indicted in Fulton Circuit Court for the Murder of James Graham Campbell by stabbing at the six upwards of Seven years, years of that time, and our information is that his conduct while there has been examplary, submissive to all the requirements of prison rules, and from his letters to his friends we believe he is contrite and if permitted to return to society would make a worthy citizen. To many of us he was personally Known and he has always been reputed an honest man. There was no accusation
against him affecting his moral character except that he occasionally indulged to excess in the use of ardent spirits, and it was while under this influence in a moment of phrensy of Jealously he committed the deed by killing James Campbell. we beg the favor of your Excellency that you will enquire into the conduct of Ferrill during the long time he has been in the Penitentiary and if the report is as we believe it will be favorable that you will remit to him the residue of the term he has to serve and give him back to community — There has been no previous application for his discharge and we trust that your Exclelency will look the more favorably upon this because even his friends have not interfered until he has now served an ignominious imprisonment for nearly six Eight years —
John, K. Morris
Chas H Harper
J S Areys
T M Kemp
W Lindsay
E. J. Bullock, [...] would respectfully urge this petition on the Governors attention —
W, R, Bradley
F M Roy.
J M Bigger
G. W. Stubblefield
John Smith
John. H. Davies
R. S. Johnson
Q. M. T. Salmon
R. M. Metheny
Saml. B, Salmon
Wm C. Blair
H W Samuel
D D Davis
G B Jordan
A, W, Shelton
S W Byrd
J, H, Fowlkes
J D Haslem
R A Thompson
T. B Davis
G W Marshall
R. H. Reeves
W R Oaks
S,, S. Ingram
W, H, Galbraith
S Bugg
D, P, Posson
R. H. Emerson
John Lewis
S W Pennebaker
[...] A French
Fulton Cir Ct
vs
John Ferrill
10 years
Manslaughter
Pardoned
Ferrill
Pardon