Petition

F. E. Powell et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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
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MG17-317
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0316
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F. E. Powell et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 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-0001-020-0316 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency B Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned citizens of Hickman Graves and Ballard Counties respectfully represent that at the last term of the Hickman Equity & Criminal Court J W Long was tried and convicted for the crime of murder, Your petitioners further state that they have heard many facts that induce them to believe that there is a great probability that the Crime Committed by Said Long was Manslaughter instead of murder as found by the verdict of the Jury, and we believe that his Case presents Strong grounds for the interposition of Executive clemency, Wherefore we respectfully ask your Excellency to Commute the punishment of said Long to imprisonment for life or a term of years.

F E Powell
A. B. Whayne
J, A, Rieger
E House
B S Loafman
G Ellegood
John. C. Williams
W. M. Anderson
H. S Pickett
F G Pickett
P T [Geveden]
H. W Stermon
Geo, S. Hobbs
B. F. Jackson

T H Owens
E. G. Farmer [...]
T R Trafford
Theo Willingham
D C Vid
A J Rycels
R, T, Milburne
A. A. Powell
Jacob Edwards
F. Simmons
R. G. Kirkpatrick
Henderson Stacy
J. C. Williams
W L Jewell
Lewis Jewell
Without Knowing the facts. I place my name to this

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petition believing the ends of Justice as well answered by imprisonment — A J Ward

T C Whayne
C P Wooden
C, B, Porter
Wm Tackett
John T Ellegood
John Pennebaker
C, H Cookendorfer
W A Casey
C, S Parrott
Wm. W. Parrott
C R Pile
G W Curtsinger
J. George
J. M. Elleston
Matt Doyhety
B, Q, Rydey
C, Jennings
C, F, Nichols
F, George
J B Boyd Jr
R, E, Harper
Joseph.G. Mansfield
John Bugg
R George
John W Bugg
[C Whirthman]
Clay George
D, Y. Elliston
D H Thomas
W, C, Turner
A,, Cline
S H Caldwell

James Busby
Thos H, Corbett
Levvy [Duberry]
A, H, Stratten
John Ross
D,, M. Coil
E Hammett
H Blake
oscar Smith
H. G. Coffey
C, C, Terrell
Caleb Terrell
W S Ware
R S A Porter
Leslie Ware
Thompson P Ware
J. M. Unsell
[James]. L, Hines
T. C. Mott
H. G. Black
Paul, W Terrell
John H Terrell
J. C. Oneal
G W Haggard
G G Broom
J, W, Brummel
Hang for Death J J C
Thos. P. Walton
G, W, Jordan
S.. S. Ingram