Petition

Levi Sigler et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Webster 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
BR42-239 to BR42-241
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3376
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32206142

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Dates
1864-03
1865
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Citation

Levi Sigler 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-0001-004-3376 (November 15, 2026).

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To his excellency Thomas E Bramlet
Govenor of Kentucky

Your Petitioners beg leave to state that one Daniel J Christian of Webster County was indicted by the Grand Jury of said County for the offence of Retailing Whiskey without a license and at the March term of the Webster Circuit Court for 1864 Said Daniel J Christian was fined in the sum of Sixty dollars for said offence

We the undersigned Citizens of Webster County would respectfully represent to your Honor that said Christian is a very poor man that he is a cripple having lost his right thumb and with it the use of his right hand that he has a wife and four small children that we believe that the said Christian was actuated by no improper motive in selling whiskey but engaged in the same merely to enable himself the better to support his family wherefore We would respect fully petition your honor that he be released from the payment of said fine that the release would be an act of kindness to him but much more to his wife and infant children Wherefore We pray his release and as in duty will ever pray &C

Subscribers names
Levi Sigler
Allen Price
Jas M Rice

Subscribers names
J. J Sigler
C W Cook

[Page 2]

Subscribers names
W. H. Browning
M C Davis
B Hennen
A. B. Browning
Hiram Martin
John D Morehead
Wm W Asher
Geo. P. Casby
B. L. Winstead
H B Chandler
G W. Stanley
J K Hanasson
H R Baker
S Samuel W Cavanah
G C Gaines
P.. S. Ruark
D. N. Edmondson
Joseph Jenkins
Vanzant S Baker
Albert R. Sigler
Joel McClendon
Isaac Watson
W T Vaughn
J W Campbell
B [...]
David Ellen
John H Bumpass
A Ralam
William all allen

Subscribers names
W F Kuyken^dall^
Joseph Dye
Johnson Vaughn
W. P. Newman
George A Powell
Henry Stone
D. C. Yarborugh
James Morehead
Wm[...]
R N [Charmeal]
Charles Simeon
P. D. Clayton

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{Seal}
His Excelency Thomas E Bramlet
Govenor of Kentucky
Frankfort Ky

Webster Cir Ct
vs
D. J. Christian
Refused 65