Ann Leghorne to Beriah Magoffin
- Place of Creation
- Louisville, Jefferson 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
- MG18-205 to MG18-206
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0452
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208860
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- Dates
- 1861-01-17
Citation
Ann Leghorne 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-0001-020-0452 (November 13, 2026).
To His Excellency the Governoyr of Ky,
Your Petition Anna Leghorn States that at the last term of the City Court of Louisville She was tried on an indictment for Keeping house found Guilty & fined Twenty dollars She States she is widow has three Small Children and is very Poor and utterly unable to pay the fine, She says winter is here with all its hardships on the Poor and she will unless your Excellency interposes, be taken from her Children and sent to the Woorkhouse, She most humbly Prays your Excellency to remit the fine
Ann Leghorne
The undersinged most earnestly unite the Prayer of Petitioner
R H Rousseau
T L Jefferson
F C Welman
Thos [Jefferson]
[Dr A J Vanderslouis]
J H Kellar M, D
P. F. Smith
Richard H Rudd M. D.
J. B. F. Gray
J. M Stephens J. P. J. C.
Peter Riley
J, P, Gailbreth
A, H, McKay
Wm Wilson
Timothy Allen
F C Forsythe
James Harris
Rev W, W, Owen
H, G, Rowland
J. Kuhn
Jacob Pfalzer
R M Pomeroy
J. A. Wigger
T S Muir
M Pyles
Please grant the prayer of the petitioner and return to the address of your Obt Servt
E R Dearing
Louisville City Ct
Remitted
B. M
$20. }
Ann Leghorne
Issd