Petition

E. C. Spiceland et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1861-05-01

Date of Creation
May 1, 1861
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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MG20-231
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1119
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E. C. Spiceland et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-05-01, 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-0001-020-1119 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Execelency B. Magoffin Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,

The undersigned would respectfully beg of you to pardon W. M. Williams out of the Penitentiary he was lately sent up from Marshall County charged with Forgery, we would represent to your honour that he has a wife and three small children who were entirely dependent upon his labour for support, the children are only from one to five years old the mother is sickly and unable to labour for the support of her children, The County authorities talk of binding outt the children, which so distresses the Mother that Humanity would propt us to ask for the release of the Father
May 1st 1861.

E. C. Spiceland
R. T. Guier
R L Son
T S Son
A C [...]thorpe
R E James
Jessee Bell
John Martin
P. W. Gardner
R. P. Samford
Wm F, Hamilton
B, A, Gardner

O Waldrold
J J Swindell
J. L. McAtee
W T Swindell
F. P. Eggner
James H Short
M. A. Eggnor
E. A Morris
J M Morris
J G Morris
thomas collins

[Page 2]

James Warren
W E Warren
John W Warren
Thomas V Warren
W. C. Booker
J S Cuthey
William hopkins
W C Tynes
Henry Tynes
David Crass
Joel Moss
J H Walker
F M Crass
S. T. Henderson
Lewis Henderson
Joshua Crass
J. C. Smith
Armstrong, Collans
R. W. Hendenerson
J. W. Henderson
James H Reuben
William Henderson
Joel Henderson
W J Foster
William Lenzy
Izacc Henderson
T T Lettens
William Abberson

W. J. cathey
J, H, Barnett
J Bishop
T L Goheen Jr
R L Malone
B W Fulcker
W E Crass
J R Jennings
Samuel Crass
S. H. Mathes
S. A. Jones
W, H, Utley
J M Brooks
D. W. Johnson
[Irwin] Sanders
James Williams
C N Williams
W H H Williams
S M Ragsdale
J M Ragsdale
J.. S.. Wolfe
J Pulliam
Joseph. R. Williams
H M Frizell
T C Travis
Isaac Frizzell