Caleb M. Davis et al. to Unknown
1861-02-05
- Date of Creation
- February 5, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Caldwell County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Petition
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
- Box / Folder
- MG17A-116 to MG17A-117
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0046
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208456
- People
- Owen, Abraham B.
- Scott, Adam D.
- Nance, Albert A.
- Stevens, Albert L.
- Major, Albert
- Reay, Andrew W.
- Malin, Arnold
- Bobb, Arthur O.
- Davis, Caleb M.
- Long, David
- Hawkins, David M.
- Dunn, David N.
- Wright, David
- Sisk, Davis
- Strum, Ebenezer G.
- Jones, Elias L.
- Ligon, George W.
- Lindsey, Harmon R.
- Parish, Henry A.
- McEuen, Henry C.
- O'Bryan, Henry C.
- Morton, Henry H.
- Oakley, Henry
- Sisk, Hezekiah
- Hibbs, J. R.
- Franklin, James Ashley, Jr.
- Chapel, James
- Miller, James E.
- Mitchell, James T.
- Laffoon, John Henry
- [Unknown], John M.
- O'Bryan, John
- [Ferguson], John
- Hall, Joseph G.
- Cartwright, Milton A.
- Terry, Milton W.
- Earle, N. B.
- Utley, Obadiah
- McEuen, Oliver Wilson, Sr.
- Wowney, T. H.
- Wadlington, Thomas B.
- Fowler, Thomas T.
- Younger, Tiller
- Laffoon, Wiley B.
- Wadlington, William J.
- Hardwick, William P.
- Playle, Woodson C.
Citation
Caleb M. Davis et al. to Unknown, 1861-02-05, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-0046 (November 12, 2026).
Whereas Thomas Wadlington has been sentenced to be han^g^d on the
John M [...]
Tiller Younger
A O Bobb
John OBryan
H C OBryan
N. B. Earle
H Sisk
J F Hibbs
W P Hardwick
T T Fowler
T H Wowney
Henry Oakley
utter groans of Lamentations for the cruelty of the execution.. Sir in a previous letter that I directed to your honor, I did not have the evidence of the case before me, but have adverted to it in remarks, beleaving I had been correctly informed. The great wonder is that your many petitiones had not prayed for young Wadlington to be released from penatitiary who was in the same charge of Thomas W his father,
A few verses next
O cruel fate if he should die
on a degraded cross,
for doing what all men would do
That was not made of dross
for God has planted in the heart
Of every man of sense
A will to take anothers life
When in his own defefense
Especially when weapons were
In his assailants hand
should he forsake his premises
And leave his house and land
And leave his home and hide ^his^ face
In some secluded place
and leave yeald claims manliness
and bear the worlds disgrace
Whilst lif shall last, or false well but
He will defend himself, It is a wright due
to him his children and his wife
George Ligon
I requested you to send my letter back to Madisonville to G Ligon please send this, Sir will not trubble you more, But will allways admire and love you
George Ligon