L. W. Trafton et al. to Beriah Magoffin
1862-04-01
- Date of Creation
- April 1, 1862
- Place of Creation
- Henderson 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
- MG23-160 to MG23-161
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1796
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210204
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Citation
L. W. Trafton et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-04-01, 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-0001-020-1796 (November 13, 2026).
To the Honorable Beriah Magoffin
Governor of the State of Kentucky
The undersigned citizens of Henderson County/in behalf of Mrs Hannah E. Grant beg leave to petition your Excellency to extend your executive clemency in remitting a fine imposed upon her at the
Your petitioners beg leave to represent to your Excellency that Mrs Grant is a widow without any means of support or income save a small gocery through which she has honestly endeavored to maintain herself and children. That it was entirely through ignorance that she became guilty of this misdemeanor, she says the persons who purchased liquor of her insisted on her selling them the liquor "by the drink" and told her that it was no violation of the law. if she would give them a drink of whiskey they would by a cigar at a price sufficient to indemnify her for the liquor. She being a woman and trusting and relying on the statements of these persons gave them a drink of liquor and sold them a cigar and for this the judgment was rendered
against her.
A copy of the judgment is sent herewith.
Henderson
L W. Trafton
H N [Fasheen]
W Rankin
J. B. Hart.
J Y Mayer
Saml P Spalding
Ira Delano
Wm W. Catlin
George Lyne
Jas. H. Boyer
R. M. Allin
Alf. T. Taylor
A. F. Parker
H. W. Gobin
W H Ladd
J. M. Dodd
S. Alexander
R G Rouse sr
Geo. Morrison
James Atkinson
B. Brashear
Henry G Tucker —
I hope Governor Mcgoffin will remit the above fine
F. H. Dallam
Tho. D. Tilford
M. S. Hancock
Sol. S. Sizemore
E. Y. Tapp.
Jacob Held.
W. M. Hancock
George B Beverly
J O Cheaney Juror
P H LeRite
D. Priest S, H, C
James Marion
Robt B. Cabell
Archd Dixon
Grant Green
T W Rankin
Dano Hart
Jas Hill
A S Nunn
J. E. Ricketts
P. A Blackwell
W. E. Ladd
John W Cornby
A J Goode
R. G. Beverley
L C Dallam
Milton Young
Paschal Rouse
John M Shaw
H C Kerr
W O Gordon
Geo L Dixon
Geo M. Vogel
F. W. Reutlinger
N D Terry
A, N, Talbott
C. W. Hutchins
B B Williams
W N Thompson
Wm H Lewis
Respite 12 mo
B M
Henderson Cir. Ct
$60. } Tipling
Mrs H. E Grant
Issd