Petition

Joseph Fox et al. 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
BR42-117 to BR42-118
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3295
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FTP Identifier
32206073

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Joseph Fox 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-0001-004-3295 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency. Thos E Bramlette
Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

The undersigned citizens of Muhlenberg and Ohio counties and acquaintance of Mrs. Wm Kirly Represent that at the late Novr term of the Muhlenberg Circuit Court the said Wm Kirtly was tried upon an indictment for grand Larceny, convicted and sentenced to two years confinement in the penitentiary A certifed Copy of the evidence upon which he was convicted will be herewith presented Those of us that heard the proof did not think it warranted a conviction and such We believe was the conviction of nearly every unbiased man that heard it.

We ask Your Excellency to to examine the evidence and to interpose Executive Clemency in behalf of Mr. Kirtly

Joseph Fox
J J Coffman Jr
Jesse Wallace
Josiah Gish
Henry King
R M Crumb
H. T. Buckley
Fayatte Ford
Charles Lelz
Jarrad Wallace
W. E. Hughes
W M Martin
L. A. Ricketts
S W. Balls
T. G. Hendrick

M L. Cooks
E W Davis
John S Young
[...][...]
C S C Wallace
W. B. Depoyster
William Drake
Wm Millgan
Nat. F Ham
F W Jackson
M, H, Christian
F. W. Burge
R G Conn
B J Jackson
John Mclish

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Andrew Duncan
William Espy
W. V. Johnson
R Tipton
J A Weeks
Alvey M Stum
B. F. Blackford
L. N. Stum
W. H. Rock
DavidBell
G. W. Haden
John Grigsby.
S B Myers
L T Reid jr
B. D. Casebier
G. Roll
Joseph Dobbs
A. J. lamfield
W J Adkins
[...] Taylor
W C Taylor
L, C, Rice
E F Smith
D H Martin
M T Glenn
A Glenn
J M Benton
G Depoyster
Z. P. Smith
Wm Hill
G,, M,, Wood
A H Blain

J. W. Dearing
A M Tolbert Jr
A. M. Tolbert Sr